> I never knew they had used the Amiga as their reference platform. I had so much hope in the mid and late 90s that Be might be the logical next platform and OS

> I never knew they had used the Amiga as their reference platform. I had so much hope in the mid and late 90s that Be might be the logical next platform and OS. So much potential. So of course they made little impact. :( There were articles and possibly demos of Be stuff in the Amiga magazines my family subscribed to IIRC (I was about 10). It was discussed as a possible replacement, seeing as Amiga was going nowhere under Commodore/Escom/Gateway/etc. QNX was also discussed in a similar way, and I remember getting a demo of QNX for PC on a bootable floppy. Linux turned out to be a more popular replacement (for me, and for Future Publishing who seemed to turn Amiga Format into Linux Format; at least many of the staff seemed to be the same)