• Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 245 from 2012/10/14
    From: DFW, TX, USA
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    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > you would think that they would [...] buy the Unix company.

    Why should Apple have bought SCO in 1997 when what they wanted and needed was low-level user space code from FreeBSD?

    > The Weather Channel didn't use Amigas but something very similar.

    What would that be?

    > If Commodore Amiga would have focused on selling computers to The Weather Channel
    > for example then they would have been extremely successful.

    You mean that channel had a need for millions of computers?


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeatherStar
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Star_XL

    Not any information on that article any more, but it said Motorola 68000 computer. The replacement is a MIPS computer.

    They are now replaced by a X86 systems, but that is probably because X86 sold to businesses that needed them.

    It is not just a channel. The Weather Channel is a nationwide weather coverage, with "Local On The 8s", ran by these computers. For every CATV (Community Antenna Television) office, they would have a Weather Channel computer for the nearest zip code. This would result in many computers Commodore Amiga could have designed and / or made.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_on_the_8s

    Channels that actually used Amiga and Atari computers: Prevue, and Sneak Prevue. (neither channel exists anymore, and the programme guide is depreciated.)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_(U.S._TV_network)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneak_Prevue
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