You are missing some history though, by the end, HP was doing the R&D for the new graphic chip (Hombre).Commodore was in a position where MS would have done the OS and HP would have developed the chips. This has all been documented in "The BOOK". Look at the LISA chip, it was made by HP also.
The Amiga by 1995 would have been a joint Commodore/ Hp hybrid machine. If they would have lasted, its very likely that HP would have absorbed them and The Amiga would have evolved into a Intel platform by now, because Motorola hasn't made chips for years. It may have gone to a PPC platform, but then IBM would have been brought in the mix,so that would have been doubtful.
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I think what doomed the Amiga was the mounting of the Graphics chips on the motherboard and trying to develop them in house. They didn't have the R&D to continue the OS, what gave them the idea that they could do the graphics as well?
I think the problem was penetration, Sega used it own chip sets till 1998. If the Amiga sold in the tens of millions then Commodore could have easily paid for developing it own chip sets at least till 1998 when it become highely cost prohibitive to do so.
