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einr 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989

This is almost exactly what the plan was, until C= went out of business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset

It was going to be HP PA-RISC based and have an AGA Amiga SoC, including a 68k core.

icedchai 4 months ago [–]

How much of Hombre is myth-and-legend? Given how little progress with made with OCS->ECS->AGA, it seems unlikely they could even have built an Amiga SoC, nevermind designed a new 64-bit chipset.

actionfromafar 4 months ago | [–]

Here's some stuff:

https://archive.org/details/Hombre_201808/Hombre_Presentatio...

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