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Re: What would an Amiga be today?
« on: August 26, 2008, 09:10:59 PM »
If you take a serious look at what Commodore had for partnerships at the time, You would have seen that HP was their biggest supporter,and had a agreement over Hombre to use in the HP lowend workstations. If CBM could have stayed alive even just 2 more years,HP would have eventually bought them out or taken over. The Amiga would have probably be dropped from HP's consumer line, but evolved into HP's Work Station line, running NT and HP-Unix as OS's. I doubt that little more than the name would have survived to this day, with cost reduction measures dropping the Zorro slots in favor of ISA to PCI etc. Many of the processes and such might have survived to this day, but it would still just have been a fawn memory in HP's past.
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Re: What would an Amiga be today?
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2008, 04:15:16 AM »
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The Amiga graphics card was built onto the motherboard so it couldn't be easily upgraded and they tried to do the speciality chips themselves.  It was a closed system.  There was no development money to advance the OS.


Actually, according to Brian Bagnail's book the Hombre' GPU would have been on a separate card so they could slip them into the HP work stations- it also looks like a "Joint" venture between HP and CBM, both funding R&D for it. But really who knows anymore. I am sure that even HP has no records of the dealings they had with CBM anymore.



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