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[Pentad]

... Because AGA was little more than a bug fix to ECS...(

I could not agree more.  The Amiga was wonderful in 1985 but Commodore never did anything to the hardware after.  Oh, there were minor upgrades but the Amiga's amazing designs of the 80's became a liability in the 90's.  

I could be wrong about this in 1988 didn't R&D show some amazing chip designs that would have be the next gen for the Amiga?  I thought I recalled that they said -looking back- it would have been like the Voodoo I from 3DFX for the PC years later.  

Sad, really....

-P

[Pentad]

You mean the legendary "Ranger Chipset"... Designed by the original team while still at Commodore... But never put into production... Apparently it would have been a killer!!!

Yep!  I could not think of the name for anything.  I am hoping that On the Edge - Part II will shed some more light on this, the original team, and how this all got shuffled around.

If memory serves, it would have put CBM insanely far ahead of everyone else.

Alas, what could have been.

-P