>>>> "Heinz Wrobel [...] suggested doing AmigaOS for PowerPC new from scratch,
>>>> and completely off-the-shelf hardware"

>>> Dave? Are you sure you and Andy weren't considering copying...our OS?

>> Apart from the fact that this would've required a time machine, the suggestion
>> was by Heinz Wrobel, not by Dave or Andy.

> I was merely suggesting that Dave and Andy might take the suggestion seriously.

Considering that Dave and Heinz were not in line apparently regarding the hardware plans (custom chips "Pebbles" and "Bam-Bam" vs. completely off-the-shelf hardware), you might be jumping to conclusions assuming that Dave/Andy and Heinz were in line regarding the OS. At least from Dave's statements at hand I can't see what his stance was back then.