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My mom's old boyfriend (bio father passed away early in my life) was quite the pain in the ass to me. However - he's always been a fan of Amiga. He had an Amiga 3000(I think?) Filled with pirated games and with various different RUSH album wallpapers. Ohh, good times! He was never a programmer, but he did know about every little tool and command line command available to the Amiga. My 10 year old brain couldn't comprehend how good multitasking was on a computer that slow.

I strongly respect Amiga, and believe that Amiga could have and should have been the company to dominate computers. It boggels my mind that Amiga has faded into relative obscurity all these years later. Folks don't know what they missed.



Read "Worse is Better" by Richard Gabriel.

It's not the only factor in the Amiga story since Commodore's incompetence in the business and marketing domain is the stuff of legend, but it certainly resonates.




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