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I too subscribed to Amiga World and remember that article.

That was only true for a very brief period of time with Amigas using the 68060, which they never came from the factory with.

I and, judging by their price on Amibay today, very few other people ever owned or used or even saw a 68060 accelerator card.

At the time I could barely afford the 030 accelerator for my A2000 and could sell it today for the price of a 4090. Hmm......

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I have an Amiga 1000 with an expansion package called A-Max. This allows my Amiga to use a real external Macintosh floppy drive. But it also allows me to use a separate partition on the A1K's internal hard drive where I've installed System 6. A-Max allows me to have what would essentially be a Macintosh Plus with crazy stats for the times, including a mild accelerator. The little thing flies. Two computers in one!

Since most software except certain Mac games (cough!) ever hit the Mac custom chips, virtually everything I throw at it works flawlessly.

MS Word, Mac Draw, Hypercard, Quarterstaff... It's pretty cool.

Almost nobody has the fastest Macs either, and high end Macs were not the market segment Commodore competed against.

Maybe it'd have gone better if they did. But the vast majority of Commodores Amiga sales were the low end machines that were hurt by being overtaken by PCs in the games market.

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