@Hillbillylitre
Originally Amigas were not commodore. Neither are they today. Commodore could not have managed to keep up with mainstream HW development with their HW components anyway, so even if commodore had continued we might have similar Amiga HW today as we have without CBM. Already my last Commodore Amiga use original HW only for some I/O and audio.
The big difference probably would be that we would have more mature SW without the time in bancrupt + McEven limbo.
My SAM has 10...100x the performance of my A4k, even when it's behind mainstream, it's nicer to use (for my needs) than A4k or mainstream. It just behaves better to my liking (so does my MorphBook and MorphMini etc.).
++++ IIRC, in 1999 I used P3/600 at work (and I got Duron/750 for my wife). At that time it was very easy to find examples where AmigaHW was still faster in normal use than mainstream, even when the mainstream already had 10x the CPU power. Main thing happened since 1994 is that SW development on Amiga side has been pretty slow. And the focus has been "get some stuff running on new architecture" rather than make system perfect. ++++ Now we have the latest GPUs from the mainstream and CPU performance capable to do 90% of all mainstream tasks (speed of the very low end of today mainstream, but anyway). Technology has advanced so that smaller companies can again develop sane motherboards, HW components via FPGA, cases etc. "Bedroom developments" have become more possible than 10 years ago. So I think the future is good for Amiga fun above 100MIPS devices. (and also very good below 100MIPS as well) ++++ We "just need" SW (and the new simple low end & low cost HW device). Last edited by KimmoK on 10-Jun-2015 at 08:24 AM. Last edited by KimmoK on 10-Jun-2015 at 07:26 AM. Last edited by KimmoK on 10-Jun-2015 at 07:17 AM.
_________________ - KimmoK // For freedom, for honor, for AMIGA // // Thing that I should find more time for: CC64 - 64bit Community Computer? |