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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
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Subject: Re: Amiga query
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 14:54:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 14:54:28 1984
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> Can anyone confirm or refute the following rumour regarding the Amgia?
> Word has it that Amiga (Inc.,Co.,Corp.?) had a contract with Atari to develope
> either a new machine called the Lorrane or some sound and graphics chips to be
> used in the same. When Tramel bought Atari, Amgia came to him asking about this
> contract. Tramel told them that he was not interested, so Amiga felt free to
> sell what they had to Commodore. Now there is talk about Tramel filing a suit
> to stop Amiga from selling the machine to Commodore.

I followed this story on Dow Jones News Service for a while.  The
following is from memory, so there may be a few boo-boos.

Atari had provided Amiga with the bucks to develop some new state-
of-the-art graphics and sound chips.  After Kindly Uncle Jack
Tramiel left Commodore and bought Atari, Amiga came back to Atari
and said "Sorry, we can't get the chips to work, so here's your
money back."  Then Amiga sold a computer design to Commodore.

Atari maintains that this new computer design utilizes the chips
that Atari had covered development costs on, and that Amiga was
trying to work both sides of the street by, in effect, selling
to the highest bidder (Commodore) chip designs which didn't
belong to them, and then trying to reimburse the actual owner
(Atari) without even so much as 1% interest.  Amiga (and Commodore)
maintain that the chips in the new computer are NOT EITHER the
ones that Atari underwrote the development costs on.

As you can imagine, temporary restraining orders, injunctions, and
lawsuits have been filed by everybody against everybody else.
I wish I was a corporate lawyer right now !!! $$$ !!!

Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug