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Re: Again, Why didn't they port Amiga OS?
« on: November 19, 2004, 06:47:43 PM »
Which architecture? X86?

This has been gone over and over. Should be in the FAQ...
Well, from the base 68K Amigas we got faster 68K accelerators/CPU upgrades, then PPC accelerators. Then,well, PPC only software. To me, alot of the PPC accelerators being sold and in the works around 2000 seemed like almost complete motherboards in themselves. When you are seeing PPC accelerators that have their own memory slots and that can have a PCI board added. Put a video card and sound card in a setup like that and you've basically have two computers in one case. It seemed like a natural progression to just make a PPC board to replace that whole upgrade kludge mess. Not to mention on X86 you have to compete to some degree with Windows. I'm sure there are other issues.