Commodore without Mehdi Ali

[zee4]

What is the likeliness of technologies like Zorro slots with only one company's research funding going to be able to match AGP, PCI, PCI-X, etc?

Just a minnor point, but C= had already decided to switch to PCI instead of continuing the Zorro series by late 1993 (they announced this at the November WOC/WOA Toronto show that year).

I tend to agree with what I belive Dave H. had said, basically AAA was outdated by 1993 and it made sense to move to more standard parts (Hombrie was sort of its own thing and not designed to run AmigaOS). This was true of the original Amiga- they used off-the-shelf parts where those worked and designed custom parts where no suitable parts existed.

As far as x86, I think PPC ended up where it did because only Apple used it on the desktop, a few million PPCs (say in a A1200-type system) might have changed Mot's mind. Maybe IBM will save it yet if they get serious about PPCLinux- early signs are positive.

Zoltan

[zee4]

AKIKO should have been on all of the AGA mobos right from the start.

Unfortunately it was a bit of a hack, I think programmers eventually figured out how to do what it did faster than the AKIKO chip did (though it might have needed an '030, though I can't remember for use). What really was needed was some new hardware, C= basically never spent the money needed to keep developing new hardware. I guess they learned the wrong lesson from the C64

Zoltan
 

[zee4]

Yup, had the UK deal gone through, The Amiga may well have survived, in a similar nicheto the Imac

My thoughts too, unfortunately we'll never know. Lets hope OS4 starts things moving in the right direction again.

Regardless of what people think of Amiga Inc., I think we can agree there is a talented team working on OS4.

Zoltan