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> Imagine if you had an Amiga Chipset and you had combined it with a RISC like chip This was the plan for the successor machine, codenamed HOMBRE and never rel
by lproven 1y ago
> Imagine if you had an Amiga Chipset and you had combined it with a RISC like chip
This was the plan for the successor machine, codenamed HOMBRE and never released.
An Amiga-like chipset closely coupled with an HP PA-RISC CPU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset
A little more info in German:
https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=de:models:hombre https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=de:models:hombre
- panick21 1y agoYeah that was in the 90s. I always thought PA-RISC was a great RISC and it an interesting concept. But even in that case that wouldn't have been the CPU. Commodore never dared to do that after the 6502 (of course that team left Commodore).