The Beauty and the Beast of Amiga hardware

[Colani1200]

beauty: A600 (perfect form-follows-function design in a nice, small case)

ugly: G-Rex PCI (mainboard -> accelerator -> logic board -> bus board... what an ugly and chaotic chain of stuff. And that DMA-enabling wire hack, running all across the board: yuck!)

[Colani1200]

KThunder wrote:
wouldnt the 600 be function-follows-form since they chopped off the numeric section of the keyboard (which is needed by many programs)

Such as?

EDIT: And wouldn't you rather call these programs misdesigned instead?

[Colani1200]

I get your point. Still a beauty though...  :-P