Carl Sassenrath - The Amiga OS creator speaks out about Rebols future and mention the Amiga in the great article at
"... However, I've built an "everything" product before. The Amiga Computer (technology years ahead of other personal computers) suffered from the "it's an amazingly general purpose computer" syndrome. It was so good in so many ways that we all felt Amiga should do everything for everybody. But, that's not what people buy. People buy solutions. People buy applications. Very few of us buy great technology just to own great technology. (And, I mean "buy" as in "accept and use", not just as in "pay for").
Those of us that went through the Amiga unfocused marketing experience suffered from the "do all end all" attitude. Just ask any Amiga user; they will display their painful scars. And, I can attest those scars will never vanish.
Eventually, the world, not Commodore, defined what the Amiga was. In the USA, the Amiga became known mainly as a low-cost video editing system -- defined by the NewTek Video Toaster. Outside the USA, Amiga was an amazing game/hacker machine with tens of thousands of games and related titles. ..."
http://www.rebol.com/notes/rebol3roadmap.html