[TChris]

In 1985, the Amiga was the best personal computer on the market. Period. Best graphics, sound, OS, could multi-task. It was at least 10 years ahead of its time in terms of technology. Still amazed that it never really took off.

I was completely amazed at the Amiga's power even up until 1990 or so. It could do more with less CPU horsepower than any other PC before or since. One wonders what their engineers could have done with a 64-bit Opteron, 1 GHz Hypertransport and 16 gigabytes of DDR RAM. :-)~

It just proves again what Microsoft and Intel have continued to prove repeatedly:

Better marketing beats better technology.

[Reactionary]

"It could do more with less CPU horsepower than any other PC before or since. One wonders what their engineers could have done with a 64-bit Opteron, 1 GHz Hypertransport and 16 gigabytes of DDR RAM. :-)"

It sure could. I could play a 12 bit, 8 channel music module on a 7Mhz Amiga and do disk IO all day without a single hiccup or glitch. My freakin' 1Ghz PowerBook can't even import music from a CD without making iTunes burp and fart all over itself.

I miss my Amiga. It was fun.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Windows can suck the life out of ANY computer. When 3.10 came out, it took 6 floppys to load it (total of about 8.6 mb) and now XP takes 6 CD's for a total of about 4.5 GB. Over FIVE HUNDRED TIMES larger. Instead of troubleshooting properly, they just write around bad code and leave the crap in there.