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 Message 4268 
 Rug Rat to Sean Dennis 
 Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore 
 10 Sep 25 17:28:44 
 
MSGID: 1:135/250@fidonet 68c209b1
PID: C-NET AMIGA BBS 5.36b
On Tue  9-Sep-2025 11:39p, Sean Dennis@1:18/200.0 said to Rug Rat:
SD>  RR> I would imagine that if they bring the "Amiga" back, 
SD>  RR> most of the legacy stuff would still be using 
SD>  RR> emulation, as you would need some way to run legacy 
SD>  RR> 68XXX code.  Similar to what Apple did when they 
SD>  RR> transitioned from the architecture to Intel, and later 
SD>  RR> to Apple Silicone.  

SD> Those Motorola 68000 processors were really something, weren't they?

They were, it is too bad Motorola could not keep up with the power/performance
curve.  Though I will say, I loved the functionality of the Intel Mac Pro's
(Cheese Grater).  The versatility of being able to run Intel VMs on them for
experimenting and standing up servers was AWESOME!

Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
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