Scifi Alternate Future: What If Apple bought Amiga Inc.

[AeroMan]

Amiga would have been useful to Apple back in 94 when Commodore died. They could have used lots of stuff from the Amiga, form chipset to Workbench and AmigaDOS, and maybe OSX would be different.

Today, Amiga is useless to Apple. No new users, as almost everyone have the Amiga as hobby today, no technology, as they are already the top dog, and no new hardware... ...as we don't have it either  :-?

If Apple have bought Commodore by the 80's, it is pretty sure they would had it running in parallel as they had the Mac and Apple II. It is quite possible that the Amiga would have killed the Mac, just like the Mac killed the Apple II.

We could have OS X running in Amigas by now...

(hey, I really like these Marvel Style "What if..." threads  :-) )

[AeroMan]

B00tDisk wrote:

Hardly.  Jobs was ready to nuke and pave anything to make NeXTStep the new apple OS.  As to the chipset?  The chipset was antiquated by 1994 - even Dave Haynie will tell you so.

Both true... But I still think there were good ideas in the chipset that could have been used, like Copper, genlock capabilities, and others

When C= could have purchased Apple it was well before the Mac.  Its highly likely there would have been no Mac if C= had bought Apple.

Yes, but Rattingan tried to sell Commodore to Apple later, and they didn´t buy it. This would have opened the possibilities I´ve talked about.

What, aren't there enough Linux distros for the various Amiga systems?  m68k, PPC+ Classic, A1, etc.

Yes, for sure... But if the Amiga survived instead of the Mac in the situation above, we would probably get to OSX or something similar, and there wouldn´t be so many distros then. It would be funny  :-D