What killed the Amiga?
First, they should have used a 68020 in the A1000. (They wanted to, but cost-cutting got in the way.)
From here 68020 (no EC's), min. Also, interject, here and there, unit shortages, some of which were caused by wasting their time with the pc's.
A2000 and A500
Flaws, no fast ram, no sockets for extra ram (with a 68020, an A2000 could have had 8 SIMM sockets for upto 32 megs, system memory). 16 instead of 32 bit Zorro bus (not sure about that). Should of had a MIDI port. A500 no real time clock. A2000, unremovable battery. (How much did those rat-finks make people spend on ram expansion cards, if you had that money now, you could buy an A1).
Bridge board that cost more than a whole pc. (8086, and 80286).*
A600*
Spending money on designing and selling PC 10-III, the whole line.*
CDTV TOOO expensive and underpowered.*
A3000, why the heck did they make the 16 MHz version? Not enough slots.
AGA, 2 meg limit, too low.
A1200, no clock, no fast ram (Should of had 2 chip, 2 fast.), no sockects for ram, should have been a 68020, not the EC.
CD32 tooo expensive, no fast ram, and needed 68030.
A4000, not enough slots, also didn't they release an EC version (THAT they shouldn't have done). Not enough SIMM sockets on the MB.
*I'd like to get my hands on the guy who dreamed that up. Total disaster.
But the last nail in the AMIGA coffin was the EOL 680x0 by moto.
Because, if they had made a 900 MHz 68070, even today, someone would make an accelerator card with it.
AmigaOne! Alternate timeline.
