amigaksi wrote:
Commodore and Atari had hardware standards but they threw them away when they upgraded to 68000 based systems. They should have left the 6502 (and custom chips) in the 68000-based systems. Just a theoretical scenario.
Actually there is a 6502 in the Amiga... take a look at the keyboard controler chip. :-D
But there is no way the Amiga or Atari should ever have stuck with the 6502... You probably think there should have been a VIC and a SID in the amiga too...
@Thread... If Jay had got his way, we would have ended up with an improved VCS... based on the 68k... no need for an OS... certainly not as powerful as the amiga, but with many of hardware features we know from the Amiga. It would have been pushed out much earlier... 1984 at the latest. Probably would have been quite popular... in fact I expect the machine would have been much like the Sega Mega Drive, but obviously much earlier...
-Edit- Actually the Amiga 1200 used a 68HC05 as the keyboard controller not the 6502 :-)
