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>>6250259
>It wasn't really possible to update the Amiga's chipset, at least not cost-effectively.
You're clueless. The chipset got upgraded several times.
>With today's tools you can revise an IC cheaply and easily, back then not so much.
Moron. That's why nobody designed chips in the 80s and 90s.
>The 680x0 was also not as easy as the x86 to make faster due to its architecture.
Brainlet. You got that the other way around. It was much easier to make the 68000 faster, and Motorola did so, consistently beating x86 from the time 68000 launched to the time Pentium-II did, as Motorola went all-in on PPC. Then again, Motorola's PPC CPUs were still faster than x86 consistently.
Unironically, this did continue so. Power9 is the fastest CPU available today.
>When the 386 came out in the mid-80s, it was so overwhelmingly more powerful than any other CPU (full 32-bit data bus+address bus) that the death knell of any other architecture was pretty much ensured.
Fool. Just how many wrong statements made as if they were facts can you put in a single post?
The 68020 was full 32bit data+address, was released in 1984 (one year earlier than the 386), and was dramatically faster.