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> You can probably blame Apple for this,

Amiga fans the original Apple haters. I loved running the Mac OS emulator and getting fast performance with a slower chip.

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I remember running a CBM 64 emulator inside a MAC emulator running on my Amiga 1200

I used to be unofficial Amiga support for Prestel/Telecom gold back in the Day.

> "Amiga fans the original Apple haters."

Probably just jealous that Apple had decent management that didn't throw away its performance lead.

"When the Amiga came out, everyone [at Apple] was scared as hell." (quote from former Apple exec Jean-Louis Gassée, Amazing Computing, Nov. 1996)

Well it wasn't differences in management as much as internal Thermal Nuclear War. Great reads to be had here http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/

Apple was a big bunch of haters on anything Amiga and told big fat lies about their own machine or the future machines that were right around the corner that would blow away the Amiga. (If around the corner was six years than they were not lying).

On an Amiga had a Motorola 68000 chip just like the Mac, but the emulator on my 1 mhz 68000 would out preform System on a 2 mhz 68000 family chip.

> "on my 1 mhz 68000"

Did you mean 7 MHz 68000?

Yes 7.09 MHz My bad it was soooooo fast at the time now I laugh. I really thin the move from anything to Amiga at the time was just leaps and bounds greater.

You should look into Apple's history a little. Their management at the time was not significantly better than Commodore's, and Apple wasn't too far away from going under the same way Commodore did.

Apple's management at the time may not have been great, but they were leagues ahead of what Commodore had (after Thomas Rattigan anyway).

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