bhoggett, right on both counts.
However, I wasn't trying to provoke a flame war - there have been quite enough lately, thank you. x86 is not a promising path, because it makes it impossible to sell any hardware, and it goes face-first against Windows and Linux.
Ah, but this has been said so many times. Just go your way and I'll go mine. We'll see in the end who's was better.
PS: It doesn't help that the attitude of many Amigans is "better dead than Intel".