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Originally Posted by Toffee
Oh wow this is new documentation on Triple A! Can't wait to digest, thanks for posting.
No secret we all know but they admit AA/AGA was outdated before it was released:-
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The Amiga 1000 was technically demoted to 2nd place in cutting edge performance/£ by the Acorn A305/A310 Archimedes 256/4096 colour/8 true stereo channel sound and 68020 CPU speed ARM series in 1987 before the A500 even went to stores and they never really got to #1 ever again if you include console chipsets too.
AAA would never ever have made it to an A500/1200 price bracket machine, that being the bulk of Commodore's income. Ditto for Hombre. Ditto for absurd CPU successor PA RISC/MIPS etc ideas when clearly the answer was to move over to dirt cheap in terms of price performance x86 (via AMD). Apple made the right choice, pick a powerful spec x86 based off the shelf solution (CPU and graphics chips) to replace your esoteric slowly advanced hardware choice. That's why Apple are still here, they put in the effort of migrating off Motorola and onto cheaper x86 PC world options and they understood the advantage of not owning a PC wasn't the alternate CPU architecture etc it was the superior OS exclusive to their own computers.