mantisspider wrote:
i just read that article, my eyes are blurry now.
yep looks like a road to disaster to me, sorry mate.
Relying on a 'nothing special' AAA chipset doesnt look too good.
In 1993 when the AAA was shown at DecCon, it outperformed both its PC & Mac competition. Looking at the AAA chipset in 2003 and making comments about it being nothing special is fairly silly, when it was being designed (and when it would have shipped) it would have outperformed its competition.
Amiga systems needed to be able to stand toe to toe with the Macs and PCs for price and power. Relying on custom chips would make it not match the price war to power wars. Being able to use a plethora of 3rd party hardware would have gone along way to expanding the shelf life of the machines.
Again, you are not looking at the computer in its historical context. There wasnt a plethora of 3rd party PCI hardware (and the box was going to have PCI anyways). AGP wasnt created yet, the amigas AGA graphics in many ways outperformed the then current VGA systems and AAA would have pushed it much further.
at last the AmigaOne is an Amiga going in the right direction. A powerful PPC operating system back in the 90s would have made the amiga as popular as the mac is now.
AmigaOne doesnt have an OS shipping yet, I have issues thinking of an off the shelf board running PPC linux as the right direction for Amiga , but when the OS is completed we'll have a chance to evaluate at that time whether AmigaOne is the way to go.
-Tig
