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Happy Birthday, Amiga

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ahead-of-its-time dept.

Sebby writes "Today is the Amiga's 20th anniversary. Commodore officially introduced the Amiga 1000 with much fanfare at the Lincoln Center in New York on July 23, 1985. It was the most advanced computer of its day. The Amiga 1000 was originally conceived a few years earlier by a small California company called Amiga, Inc. and was financed by a group of Florida doctors looking to invest in a killer game machine."

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  1. All that I can say by 0xdeaddead · · Score: 5, Insightful
    is that Commodore snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with this one.

    The real problems that plagued the Amiga was the lack of cheap hard disks from Commodore, Later in the Amigas life the lack of memory protection started to plauge the users too... If they actually released, standardized the platform perhaps it would have helped...

    On the otherhad the killer is that everyone that has bought the IP has either died, or promised to do something with it, and done nothing.

    As a plus Amiga's gave rise to smart GPU's, offloaded IO & a better less cpu centric design of cheap computers.