That First Startup
Driven in part by the experiences of his friends at Amiga, he joined Scala, Inc. The goal here was to advance some desktop presentation technology for use on other platforms. Dave's ability to switch-hit hardware and software was useful; Scala planned a hardware project, but not initially. He designed Scala's "Class Definition Language" and compiler, some high level tools for the operating system Scala was defining for portable multimedia. But the hardware projects never came around.
In 1995, Haynie did some consulting, along with Andy Finkel, for Amiga Technologies, the company resulting from Escom's acquisition of the Commodore assets. He and Finkel defined a next generation Amiga platform, based on a $500 PowerPC platform and a whole new version of AmigaOS. However, ESCOM's own financial problems killed this before it went very far.
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