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To: Swordmaker
The 4000 tower was the last in production I think.And third party developers carried on in the direction the company might have for a few years.They used the 68060 and PowerPC chips. Like those who build customized kit cars because they are willing to spend extra time and money instead of the less expensive everyman's machine.Eventually both Apple and generic ps video editing caught up,then surpassed the Amiga.

The chips Amiga engineers had in planning for the next generation had promise but the research money wasn't there.

The ironic part is that many Amiga users were encouraged to move to the Macintosh as being more similar in operation;now they will be moving again.

Standardization has its uses but I like for there to be alternate choices just so the standards don't grow stagnant.

55 posted on 04/08/2006 12:41:29 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: hoosierham
The 4000 tower was the last in production I think.

The 4000 was the last Amiga still in production... but the 1200 which was based on some of the chips developed for the 4000 was the last introduced.

The A4000/060 was released far after Commodore went bankrupt and was broken up and sold at auction. It was assembled out of parts left over in inventory by a third party.

56 posted on 04/08/2006 3:40:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
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