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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Phase V was trying really hard to get involved with AT

    Yes, and it seems this attempt even resulted in an AT press release mentioning a co-operation:

    "Thanks to a close co-operation between Amiga Technologies and Phase V, a German turbo board manufacturer, a full range of Power PC boards will also be available for the A1200, A3000 and A4000 series."
    http://www.cucug.org/amiga/aminews/1995/at951111.html
    http://www.amigareport.com/ar320/news10.html
    http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/ppcrelease.html

    > there were definite plans to build [...] a PowerPC port.

    Considering AT in 1995 announced a Power Amiga for 1997 this only seems logical.

    > MorphOS was fragmenting an already weak community by offering an Amiga clone.

    As I see it, MorphOS was offering the only serious (AROS, albeit in existence, wasn't to be considered serious back then) way forward in terms of "AmigaOS" as we knew it. As you said yourself, Amiga Inc. tossed AmigaOS out for Tao's Intent/Elate. The fragmentation happened only later when OS4 was announced in March/April 2001 and more specifically end of 2001 when Hyperion restarted the OS4 project after Amiga Inc's own OS4 project as well as the negotiations to make MorphOS the new OS4 failed.
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