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Re: What would an Amiga be today?
« on: August 26, 2008, 05:39:29 PM »
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SamuraiCrow wrote:
The AAA chipset was going to get canned and Commodore was thinking of dropping their own operating system in favor of the PowerPC version of Windows NT.  Even if they hadn't gone belly-up they still would have made a terrible mess of things and still gotten it wrong.  Management at Commodore towards the end was outright anti-Amiga and pro-PC.

My opinion:  Commodore was doomed in many ways at once.  It would have gone under one way or another anyhow.


I agree with you mostly... but Both Haynie and Ludwig have said that the PPC was not a choice for the future of Amiga... it was dropped early on in development meetings... HP's PA-RISC was the choice...

Custom Chipsets were on the way out, and yeah NT was in as far as Commodore was concerned. The Amiga as we know it would have faded out after the 1992 machines :-)