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Grex Amiga Item 14: Gateway 2000 new owner of Amiga
Entered by lkt on Mon May 19 21:30:50 UTC 1997:

Gateway 2000 buys Amiga Technologies

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#1 of 4 by lkt on Mon May 19 21:47:05 1997:

  On March 27, 1997, Gateway 2000 announced that their bid for Amiga
Technologies had been accepted.  Gateway 2000 president Rick Snyder stated
that the Amiga "will strengthen our intellectual property position and
invigorate a company that has been a pioneer in multimedia solutions and
operating systems technology."

  Concerning the history of the Amiga, Gateway 2000 released the following
comments:

  "Since the introduction of the Amiga 1000 in 1985, Amiga has represented
the embodiment of the efficient use of memory and hard drive capacity,
while pioneering industry developments in multimedia, 32-bit multitasking
and autoconfiguration.  Amiga led the industry in combining computer
graphics, animation and film sequences with stereo sound known today as
multimedia."

  Immediately after their bid was accepted, Gateway 2000 announced the
renaming of Amiga Technologies as "Amiga International, Inc."  The renamed
company will continue to operate as a seperate business unit, now a wholly
owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000.

#2 of 4 by lkt on Mon May 19 22:21:04 1997:

  For much more information on the Gateway 2000 acquisition of Amiga,
I recommend that you visit the following web sites:

    www.Gateway2000.com

    www.amiga.de  (the Amiga International web site)

#3 of 4 by scott on Sun Jan 2 16:29:15 2000:

Looks like Gateway is now selling the Amiga name, but may be hanging onto some
of the delevpment work for embedded systems (aka "internet appliances").

http://www.slashdot.org    tends to post Amiga news when it happens.

#4 of 4 by mta on Mon Jan 3 03:50:45 2000:

Yeah, a number of Amiga fans are furious that Gateway apparently bought Amiga
to canibalize it's "superior" technology and then spit it out without given
Amiga users their fix.

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