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Re: So you were put in charge of making the 060 based amiga
« on: October 17, 2010, 10:11:20 PM »
Quote from: runequester;585116
So lets say Commodore had built an 060 based amiga, before jumping ship to other hardware (or dying).
You were put in charge of the design plans:


You couldn't dump the chip set for lower end machines because of compatibility and the top end machines needed it for video.

I'd release the AAA/DSP combo they were already working on.  Wouldn't matter if it didn't have the best graphics, but the DSP alone would have blown everything else away.

That would keep things going until the next chip set could be developed, with 3D of course.  You could put a chipset like that on a card and sell it as a PC graphics card - like SGI should have done but never did.

As for the OS it would have to be ported to something better, I would have looked at Alpha but it probably wouldn't have been financially possible (they were very big, expensive chips).  Amiga would have almost certainly have gone PowerPC.

It would also be apparent the OS needed upgrading, for that I'd buy Be inc.