At various stages an Amiga A250 console was mooted but Irving Gould baulked at the cost of cartridge manufacturing. So we ended up with the A300 which, through feature creep and apparently the intervention of Commodore Germany, became the unexpectedly expensive A600.

In hindsight I see that 1991 period when Sydnes, Ali and co were calling the shots as the final nail in the Amiga’s coffin. Jeff Porter’s A1000+ and A3000+, both with AGA, could have bought some time had they been released as planned in 91. But the A1200 and A4000 were too little too late the following year.

OS/2 was what I was running circa 1995 instead of BeOS. BeOS was cool but the software I wanted to run could run on OS/2. I’ve mentioned BeOS here and there and I did mess with it once it was available on Intel, but I’ve never written anything comprehensive about it, so I’ve added it to my list. Can’t promise when I’ll get to it, but I will get to it this year.

I’ll have to dig up the reference on this, but I think Ed Hepler was designing a PA-RISC chipset.

Found it, Dave Haynie mentioned it a few times, and it was Hombre, not ASA, and they were designing it for HP PA.

In the era where Alpha and PPC were ascendant and MIPS was a thing, PA seemed odd, but I was just a dumb kid St the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset

Favorite Mac? None of them. I really don’t like them, I always thought of them as a waste after I saw Amigas. I’m not a fan of the modern ones either. I have to use one at work and would rather use an HP or Dell.

No, HP manufactured the AGA chips for Commodore. But they still used Motorola 68K-series CPUs. Commodore was using HP the way other companies use Samsung and TSMC today.

Wasn’t the AAA chipset based around a HP PA CPU?

One of the prototype next gen Amiga platforms, Hombre, was being developed in collaboration with HP using their PA-RISC architecture. Had it ever seen the light of day, it probably would have been very powerful for the time, but probably expensive, and a dead end.