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Jay Miner, the engineer who created the Amiga's AGNUS/DENISE/PAULA chips, came from Atari where he previously created the TIA in the Atari 2600, and then the AN
by timbit42 3y ago
Jay Miner, the engineer who created the Amiga's AGNUS/DENISE/PAULA chips, came from Atari where he previously created the TIA in the Atari 2600, and then the ANTIC/CTIA/POKEY chips in the Atari 8-bit computers. The Amiga is the 16-bit successor to the Atari 800 that Jay wanted to create at Atari but was told, "No".
But, yes, Commodore had a lot of great engineers too, some of which followed Jack Tramiel to Atari and created the Atari ST and others who remained at Commodore.
- snvzz 3y ago>The Amiga is the 16-bit successor to the Atari 800 that Jay wanted to create at Atari but was told, "No". Later, that same Amiga team finished Ranger, the next generation chipset, and was told "No." at Commodore. Amiga's history gets more depressing the more you know about it.