THX-4703 wrote:
I was just wondering who owns the rights to the original Amiga hardware architecture? .. The new Amiga (Amiga One) as I understand it is not combatable with the original Amiga. The classic Amiga was such a leap forward, a machine way ahead of it's time.. I can't understand why someone wouldn’t want to take that design and update it a bit so it can handle higher resolutions and color depths and
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Poke around and find the various interviews and newsgroup posts from Dave Haynie about why this can't work ever again. I'll help you out if you don't feel like digging: Any custom-chip set (so-called) would be outdated by the time the first prototypes were fab'ed. PC tech moves by leaps and bounds, and whether or not you "like" Intel or Microsoft (or AMD and Linux or whatever) can't change that, period. You simply cannot design an on-board PC "custom chip set" that won't be eclipsed by the time it makes it's debut.
