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Originally Posted by EAUniW
Which is why I dislike seeing the modern Amiga iterations being pumped full of steroids in an attempt to be a more modern device.
The stock Amiga is near 40 year old hardware and you use it based on those limits. Nobody complains that the Spectrum Next can't play video or browse the internet because it's designed to expand on the stock 16/48K Spectrum, not transform into an eight-core, GPU equipped powerhouse like modern PCs.
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Totally valid point of view but the major difference between computers like the Spectrum on the one hand and the Amiga on the other is that the Amiga was designed with the possibility of evolving both hardware and software while (mostly) keeping software compatibility. The Amiga could have become an eight-core GPU equipped powerhouse and it would have been even easier than doing the same to the DOS/8086 platform.