I mean NeXT machine was much more expensive then what you could have done. And need far more RAM. And of course it also used mostly commodity chips. As far as I know, but I haven't looked, they don't have fully integrated IO chips. Those were just conventional 68k workstations. Did NeXT design a single chip themselves?

> Also note that one of the original ideas for the Amiga, was to get into the UNIX workstation market

Could you source that for me? It might be true. I heard from interviews with Jay Minor that they were developing a game console, and then when the 1982 crash happened, he convinced them to pivot to a home computer. And specifically he wanted it to run games like flight simulation.

Commodore explicitly cancled its own Amiga workstation, the Z8000 based Commodore 900 Unix workstation.

When Amiga lauched they lauched with games and with pixel editors. It was endorsed by EA.

Doesn't sound like 'unix workstation' to me. It was later in the 1980s where they started to want to get into that market.

PS: BeBox much later, by then the PC ecosystem had already done most of that stuff.