Here is a article about it from many years back:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001020/http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/aug98/reviews/hines/AmigaHA.html
Interesting, if extremely brief, mention of OS9 there, a precusor to Amiga DOS, it was a pre-emptive multi-tasking operating system that borrowed some concepts from UNIX.
Not that many of you would remember that OS (it is NOT MacOS9), it featured a micro kernel (like MorphOS), and required that code run under it be written to be re-entrant and position independent.
I was selling 68K based systems running that when the Amiga was being offered by Commodore.
The Amiga had sound and graphic acceleration we didn't offer, and our GUI was optional, BUT our hardware was cheaper, supported multiple users, and used memory more efficiently (which back then was important as it was DAMNED expensive).
BTW - If anyone knows someone that owns a Peripheral Technologies PT68K4 or K5 system, I would be VERY interested in buying it to recreate one of these setups.
AND, its cool to see someone still interested in X10, I had my whole house filled with those modules at one point.
We had those in stock at Delmar Company too.
An early "Smart Home" concept. Still quite functional.
...(I)had to sigh when I read "To enlighten those who don't know, Amiga Inc. was recently purchased by Gateway 2000 and is staging a comeback."
My first BIG sigh, was when visiting IBM engineers handed me a beta copy of Windows 3.0, then another later when Tandy and a few other companies started to promote a MultiMedia PC standard (MPC).
By the time the Gateway project was announced...I wasn't that optimistic that anything born from the 68K market outside of the Mac would survive.
SO...no big pregnant sighs there.
Sucks have a better idea and having it quashed when your competition steals your thunder, doesn't it? :confused:
