It pushed me away into the loving arms of MorphOS 3.2 on a PowerBook.
Hyperion could quite easily port OS4 to Mac hardware but for reasons only known to themselves they choose not to.
And before anyone starts with the BS excuse that they are legally bound to only support AmigaONE branded hardware I will point you to the Pegasos II and ACube SAM ports. Neither of those platforms are legally AmigaONE branded hardware.
All of that was prior to the importance of branding being stressed.
After your examples they rebranded Sam460 as "Amigaone 500".
One must protect the branding you know by using it.
Regardless, "they" have two h/w developers to consider now, and making such a decision would obviously affect them.
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