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Re: So what Processors did commodore consider for the next gen Amiga?
« on: April 14, 2011, 10:14:43 PM »
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Only partially correct. PA-RISC was destined to power the CD32 successor and a PCI gfx card. There was no talk of a PA-RISC based Amiga desktop architecture.
Acutiator was designed as a 68040 board but easily configurable to a new RISC CPU. This was to be the next high-end Amiga after 4000. So, after 68K came... 68K :lol:
Where is Hazydave when you need him ;)

It's a while back, but the HP PA-RISC 150 was definitely mentioned in the same sentence as the Amiga in 1994... Amiga Format had an interview with engineer Chris Ludwig, who confirmed as much... :)
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Re: So what Processors did commodore consider for the next gen Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2011, 10:54:51 PM »
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Read that interview and then read Haynie's comment on it... From what I gather, PA-RISC was destined for the gaming console and a PCI card. Desktop CPU architecture was still not decided upon.
Hmmm, fair point... But had Commodore lived, then my money would be on PA-RISC since hombre was using it and HP had a 68k->PA-RISC migration path already.
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