I dont think it matters. Simple fact is that Amiga OS (capital A) is ppc. With hindsight it makes things difficult to even come close to competeing in terms of price and/or performance, but that wouldve been hard to predict 8 years ago when OS4.x was being instigated, let alone 15 or so years ago when the original ppc card became available. An x86 version is the only way to gain mass acceptance (I mean really, who other than the most dedicated enthusiasts are willing to pay 1500+ euro for a machine whos equivalent you can get for about 200 euro?), but even then it'd be an uphill battle (in the face of the competition that's out there). Amithlon style big endian byte ordering on x86 might've been the best way to go initially (so as to maintain the same style 68k emulation), leading the way to a "normal" x86 version by the time things reach 4.3 (or therabouts (ie. once there's software available)..... even with the performance hit suffered through big endian x86 you'd still be getting hugely improved bang-per-buck (and faster systems) than what is available now/in the forseeable future. This is all in regards to the branded "Amiga" of course. An alternative response could be that Im pretty content with AROS on x86 anyway ("amiga" vs "Amiga").
