Amiga, Inc. of
South Dakota
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was a personal computer company, originally a wholly owned subsidiary of
Gateway 2000, Inc., predating the Amiga, Inc. of Washington. It was based upon the intellectual property of the German company
Escom AG, and had descended from the original
Commodore
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** Commodore (United States)
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Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphi ...
personal computer series from the 1980s and 1990s.
History
This instance of Amiga, Inc. was incorporated in South Dakota in 1997, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Gateway 2000, Inc. (later renamed
Gateway, Inc.
Gateway, Inc., previously Gateway 2000, is an American computer hardware company. The company developed, manufactured, supported, and marketed a wide range of personal computers, computer monitors, servers, and computer accessories. It was acqui ...
) After acquiring from the German company
Escom AG certain Amiga-related intellectual property assets in 1997, Gateway decided to keep the patents, and try to run Amiga, Inc. as a separate unit. It was originally intended to develop two new operating systems, announced as "
AmigaOS 4
AmigaOS 4 (abbreviated as OS4 or AOS4) is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code developed by Commodore, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner. "T ...
" and "
AmigaOS 5". Amiga, Inc. was initially led by Jeff Schindler, then by Jim Collas, and later by Tom Schmidt. Other employees included Darreck Lisle (event coordinator), Marylin Flint (operations manager), Joe Torre (senior engineer) and Kelli Newby, née Macomber, (executive administrative assistant). Independent subcontractors who also briefly worked (without being hired) for Amiga, Inc. included William "Bill" McEwen and Barrie Jon "Fleecy" Moss.
In 1999, when Gateway closed Amiga, Inc., Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss obtained from Gateway
[ ] the amiga.com Internet domain and a license to incorporate a new independent company, also named "Amiga, Inc.", but incorporated in the state of Washington.
See also
*
Amiga, Inc.
*
Amiga Corporation
Amiga Corporation was a United States computer company formed in the early 1980s as Hi-Toro. It is most famous for having developed the Amiga computer, code named Lorraine.
History
In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari staffers, ...
References
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Amiga companies
Companies based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Gateway, Inc.
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies