Commodore was the worst thing that happend to the Amiga

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Had the AIM alliance decided to put 68k compatibility mode into the PPC, in the same way intel kept the pentium compatible with the x86... I believe the PPC would have had an equal share of the desktop market by now.

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mdma wrote:

bloodline wrote:
Had the AIM alliance decided to put 68k compatibility mode into the PPC, in the same way intel kept the pentium compatible with the x86... I believe the PPC would have had an equal share of the desktop market by now.

Me too, but I'd reword it slightly.

"Had the AIM alliance decided to put 68k compatibility mode into the PPC, in the same way AMD made the Athlon compatible with the x86... I believe the PPC would have had an equal share of the desktop market by now."

I think we've both said on here before, that an Athlon-ized 68k would have been a run away success.

Unfortuately, the key work here is "would".

It honestly can't see why no one thought the back investment of 68k software wasn't worth a few extra transistors (wouldn't have even needed much more than a simple microcode based emulator IHMO) in the PPC core... if you look at how much space was given over to the FPU... which is certain to be depreciated now with emphisis on alitvec... the mind boggles...

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cecilia wrote:
didn't one of them die?

Just wishful thinking.