#Samsung Tidbit
Interesting wrinkle on Samsung I discovered today. A fellow called me at
MegageM today and wanted an A1200 (along with zillions of others who can't get
one). Anyway, this guy is a rep for the (what, you say?) Sinclair QL computer
in the US. It is still a popular item in Europe. The Sinclair QL is VERY
closely related to the Amiga. The operating system came from the same source
as AmigaDOS. It multitasks, the macroassembler is IDENTICAL to the original
Amiga macroassembler, etc. Not that it's great, just a point which helps point
out the link which few Amiga folks know between the QL (I owned one a few years
back for a while) and the Amiga. Anyway, guess what? Who now manufactures the
QL? SAMSUNG. This guy buys his QL's directo from the Samsung factory in Korea
or Samsung Germany. Interesting little tidbit from out of the blue. Maybe
Samsung is ready for a step up in computing tech- nology and because of the QL,
they already have experience with a technology very closely related to the
Amiga. This was the n related to any of the rumors
which seemed to lend an independent bit of credibility. Samsung either bought
or licensed the rights to make QL's at some point from Sinclair.
Interesting…. I sure hope somebody keeps making Amigas, etc. The best thing
anyone could do is make an Amiga plug-in board for the PC. It'd sell zillions
of units. PC folks could FINALLY have an inexpensive way to do REAL video
animation, etc. instead of brain-dead (from the video point of view) VGA and
VGA to video converters. Perhaps someone could make an A1200-type board which
would plug into the PC ….?