a golden age of Amiga

[Digiman]

Without a new generation of J. Miner and R.J.Mical or any of the excellent ideas from programmers like Dan Silva etc there can't ever be a new age of Amiga.

Remember 18 years of no repeat of the firsts found in A1000 to CD32 is a long time in engineering terms and software development terms.

edit:mass market/PC conquering type golden age*

[Digiman]

Software can be intelligent too. And yes to be honest if someone produce d an OS 25 years worth better than KS/WB 1.2 on A1000/500 it would be a game changer. Multitasking GUI desktop machine was game changing in 85/86.

Windows, Linux or OSX will never be a revolution......so we are stuck.

What I meant about Jay Miner etc was a new generation of designers who designed a machine architecture radically different and superior to current desktop PC or Mac. PC and Mac existed before the A1000 launch. You need lateral thinking geniuses before millions of dollars. And OS and user input technology must also be cutting for another revolution similar to the dawn of Amiga in 1985 IMO

[Digiman]

The big question is "what problem does it solve"... In engineering almost anything is possible, but few things are actually useful :-/

This is true. What is also true though is technology so advanced as A1000 in 1985 takes decades to be accepted. Today we take for granted the multitasking  multimedia OS but before 2000/XP Windows was a joke, a toy OS for accounting nerds and a general public who accepted the limits of Win 95-ME and OS1-9.

Second storage and main storage technology price/performance was 5 years behind the OCS A1000 chipset in 85. Would MP3 players have gone mass market if solid state memory to store the MP3s on was stuck at a max 32mb and transfer speeds of 64kb/sec for years? Exactly.