>>> OS4 [...] was badly injured when Eyetech did the bait-and-switch with the
>>> Escena "AmigaONE" with some failed Teron board

>> I can't remember Eyetech's switch from Escena's non-working hardware to MAI's almost
>> working hardware having a bad influence on OS4 or its perception. Quite to the contrary.

> AmigaOne SE reflected very, very badly on both Eyetech and HYPErion.

And how was this reflection worse than that of the non-working Escena hardware, which was not shown once even running anything? Some OS4 fans were disappointed because the switch to Teron meant no real Amiga custom boards any more. But most of them seemed to eventually applaud the switch because this allegedly meant proven hardware from the PPC Linux world, as Linux already ran on the Teron. That this turned out to be a massive delusion is a different matter.

> The SE was sold literally years before OS4 ever had a beta.

This depends on what you think a beta of OS4 is, I guess. It was 1.5 years from the AmigaOne SE to the release of the first OS4 developer pre-release.