chipset question

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PA-RISC?
Man, what a change.
Why was Haynie still working on AAA when Hombre' was in development?
In a PCI implementation, Hombre' could have breathed some life into the OS again.
And WinNT long before WinXT made the NT kernel common, too cool.

So guys, why are we PPC supporters so far off?
68K emulation, RISC, and discrete graphics?
Why don't you guys join US?
Even Commodore was giving up on extending the original Amiga architecture.

AAA and Hombre projects were running in parallel with the idea that the Amiga would be AAA powered and Hombre would be the next gen machine, possibly moving the Amiga platform (I.e. the OS) over to Hombre if anyone still cared about it... For Commodore Hombre and Win NT was the future platform (with cheap Hombre consoles covering the home market).


-edit- quick note to point out that PA-RISC was nothing like PPC. IIRC went on to become the Intel Itanium architecture... Could be off base about that...

[Iggy]

AAA and Hombre projects were running in parallel with the idea that the Amiga would be AAA powered and Hombre would be the next gen machine, possibly moving the Amiga platform (I.e. the OS) over to Hombre if anyone still cared about it... For Commodore Hombre and Win NT was the future platform (with cheap Hombre consoles covering the home market).


-edit- quick note to point out that PA-RISC was nothing like PPC. IIRC went on to become the Intel Itanium architecture... Could be off base about that...

ALL RISC shares some similarity.
Sounds like Hombre could have helped Commodore survive.
AAA was to little, too late.
And Motorola didn't intend to continue development of the 68K.
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ALL RISC shares some similarity.
Sounds like Hombre could have helped Commodore survive.
AAA was to little, too late.
And Motorola didn't intend to continue development of the 68K.
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Well, I'm not fan of PPC... I think it is bloated and feels like a compromise design. MIPS and ARM are much more beautiful IMHO. I know virtually nothing about PA-RISC, but I do know that Hombre planned to use several small PA-RISC cores as standard :-)

Hombre might have saved Commodore, but it would just have likely spelled the end for the Amiga... Which would have been relegated to the C64 position in the product line up.

[Iggy]

Well, I'm not fan of PPC... I think it is bloated and feels like a compromise design. MIPS and ARM are much more beautiful IMHO. I know virtually nothing about PA-RISC, but I do know that Hombre planned to use several small PA-RISC cores as standard :-)

Hombre might have saved Commodore, but it would just have likely spelled the end for the Amiga... Which would have been relegated to the C64 position in the product line up.

Obviously I don't agree with you about the PPC.
And until recently ARM has been under powered.

MIPS holds no interest for me.
And PA-RISC is a dead issue. Although Commodore might have helped it succeed.

Hombre could have helped AmigaOS carry on if they'd followed through with that part of the plan.

As it is, the NG OS' resemble that idea.