Sabrina has bought a new Amiga!

[weirdami]

by Argo on 2004/5/2 0:03:01

I wish that our Amiga's still had cutting edge CUSTOM chips but thats not realistic.....

It could be done in another way. Like using off the shelf chips in a new unique and original way. Instead of variations of the standard PC board design.  

That's one thing that confuses and worries me. Is every computer nowadays an IBM PC clone? (Macintosh included.) The IBM model was off-the-shelf-parts with a special BIOS dealy to make it all work together. Is every computer that uses OTS parts cosidered an IBM, or is it the BIOS dealy that makes it an IBM? All the new Macintoshes are OTS, right? They have all the same ports and slots as Windows boxes, so what's keeping them from being IBM's? Linux boxes are pretty much Windows boxes, sans Windows (IBM's), right? And don't you need an IBM type box to put an AmigaOne card into? How then is AmigaOne not just a peripheral for an IBM?

:-?  :huh:

[weirdami]

Does Eric Schwartz have an account on here? Maybe he can come and clarify things for us. Or, do we really want clarification? Maybe he's leading us somewhere with the story and we should just wait until the end.