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AmigaOne is a family of PowerPC-based personal computers designed to run AmigaOS 4, positioned as a successor to the Amiga line that Commodore International once made. Where the original Amigas used Motorola 68k processors, AmigaOne machines use PowerPC chips. The name began in 2000 as a project managed by Eyetech, whose first design was cancelled; the company then licensed a Teron CX board from Mai Logic and sold the AmigaOne SE and XE boards, the latter with G3 or G4 processors. Mai Logic went bankrupt and Eyetech left the market in 2005. In September 2009 Hyperion Entertainment gained an exclusive licence to the name, and later models such as the X1000, the AmigaOne 500 and the X5000 came from A-Eon Technology and Acube Systems. The AmigaOne A1222 was released in early 2024. These machines can also run Linux for PowerPC, MorphOS and FreeBSD.

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2000 1
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1. Wikipedia: AmigaOne
  • History
    Originally in 2000, AmigaOne was the name of a project for new computer hardware
  • History, Hyperion era
    The A1222 was released in early 2024.
  • In Field: Computer Architecture, Lead
    the AmigaOne line uses PowerPC processors
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