Business moves from Commodore

COMMODORE has been making some interesting moves since Marshall Smith took over from Jack Tramiel as president three weeks ago.

The company has announced two deals to take it into the IBM compatible business market. It has signed a technology licencing agreement with the Canadian manufacturers of the IBM compatible Hyperion machine and it has concluded a deal with Intel to begin manufacture under licence of the Intel 8088 chip, used in the IBM Peanut.

The decisions follow the lukewarm reception given to Commodore’s 700 Series machines.

Commodore has also decided to follow Atari and begin development of software for machines other than its own. The company is to develop a range of software for the Atari, Apple and IBM computers.