So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?

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Being connected to the 68k-socket (or turbe-slot in the A2000) doesn't mean they have full access to the Amiga-addressspace.

Quite! But this particular board used system ram and I/O via the Amiga's I/O... So I'm guessing that the 286 must have more access to the Amiga than most

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Lets not forget that. Its all about software, NOT hardware.

Some people define Amiga as "everything that has a Paula chip". So not everyone would share this view. Actually it is quite modern, because in a world that is dominated by GHz and virtual machines you can indded claim it is all about software.

To reach a certail level of cleanness and performance however, your software has to be written with the hardware in mind. You have to avoid things it can´t do very well and make heavy use of its benefits. At least this is what Amiga programmers tried to do.

[utri007]

What would be minium requirements that A OS could competitor in mainstream market. That just in theory.

Hardware could be something like 600mHz, with cpu caches  and with proper drivers. Video coding done by GPU.

Software needed is office suite, with possibility to use and save MIcrosoft office docs. Modern Web brwser, with suppor media streaming, working youtube etc.

Versatile selection of games, sport, driving, fps, rts etc, maybe couple of games for childrens.

All that could done with reletively cheap Digi TV box, wich has PPC cpu and other needed parts. Price less than 200€

Lack of latest graphical triks would be possible bypass with talented graphic designers. Like in old days, there are amazingly good looking games with 32 colors in 320x200 screen.

[orb85750]

And the history clearly shows why purists don't consider PPC machines to be "real" Amigas.

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Lets not forget that. Its all about software, NOT hardware.

In the late '70's, when buying a computer was still regarded as a very strange idea, the advice was to choose the software you wanted to use and then buy the hardware it ran on.

It was Supercalc that sold the Apple 2 not the other way round, if there had been software for the PPC it could have been successful, although it was expensive (like most Amiga hardware).