CompuServe Messages

Jeff, I look at it like this. At this point, CBM has, through inaction and stupidity, blown the Amiga opportunity. Although I'd like to think that CEI et al could bring it back, I don't believe it. NT on a Pentium or RISC CPU – more than standard windows on any platform – offers the Amiga user several things they're used to (true multitasking that works well, snappy operation, etc), and several things they should have had but didn't (excellent retargetable graphics, several decent font systems, an incredible range of hardware at low prices). It's an opportunity. At this point, rather than thinking it's a shame, I'm just glad it's there, period, if it wasn't, likely the only choice would be a Mac – and _that_ is a really limited choice for people who are used to both a GUI and a CLI environment, believe me. I have to use a Mac to deal with our print shop and it's quite painful after the flexibility of NT (or an Amiga). It's a good machine for computer novices, but for me, thank goodness there are very powerful and flexible alternatives. PowerPC would seem to be a good way to go for a new Amiga, if a restart can be accomplished at all. A PowerPC could emulate a 68040 with pretty fair ease, so compatibility ought to be no problem. The hardware end of it would be worse, and I know that's not insurmountable either. me, I'd like to see NT ported to the 68030 or better, anyway… that'd give all the Amiga hardware somewhere to go. –Ben …via AutoPilot