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- On 22 Mar 1996, Juergen Rally Fischer wrote:
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- > Fabio Bizzetti (bizzetti@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
- >
- > : 680x0 and AGA based ones. The PowerAmiga will be a PC with just another CPU.
- > Well, still containing AGA would cost nothing and make OS-port easier imho.
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- I suspect that the first part I've highlighted is a long way from the
- truth, I'd bet that the cost of tooling and manufacture for the rather
- lack-lustre AGA chipset is a significant part of the cost of any Amiga
- manufactured. And as for the second part, AT plans to port AmigaOS from
- one specific architecture to another specific architecture, a bit of a
- non-event IMHO. When they realise it should be made truly open and
- portable, that will be a noteworthy day.
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