| Soleron said: The Amiga was more like a 'computer' than a 'console'. It was competing with the IBM PC... and lost. No computer since the PC has quite as successful - we still use MS-DOS/Windows derived systems, x86 CPUs and for some reason PS/2 ports. |
back at the time home computers were still a small market compared to the business computer market. Since comodore & atari both failed entering the business segement they had no real chances. also comodore died cause of their pc segement, and the companies buying up the amiga rights never really did release anything.
From system design point amiga was the far superior hardware design when compared to the pc back at that time, even the os had a relatively modern microkernel architecture which allowed preemptive multitasking on a computer with a 7mhz cpu and 512 mb ram, the system architecture was very open so also allowed easy additions of new upgrades.
The open system architecture allowed Amigas to be among the first computers with cd rom /cd writer addons, video cards for realtime video editing....
Personally if i look back on all computers and game systems that i ever owned i still think the amiga was the one that i liked most. and i was in the middle of these platform wars, a good friend had an atari st, at school we had pcs (mostly dos, but at end early windows versions, i was allready finished with school before windows 95 entered market).
I also learned programming in that time, being forced to programming with turbo pascal at school, but additionally learned assembler at home on my amiga. (with friends in the demo/cracker scene assembler was a must)
