I remember Amiga..
Yep, an truly amazing system - even to today's standards... they were big in europe, but never really took off in the US. For example, I ran with a 3000 that had a Mac board AND a Window board AND ran AmigaOS. I also ran UNIX on another Amiga. They were the 1st PC certified to run System V Unix. Get thsis, Amiga was doing major, CONCURRENT multi-tasking 10 years before Windows 95 (Billies 1st multitask OS) ever hit the street. Windows OS nor the Intel could handle the complexity of multi-tasking.
For the most part the Amiga's video & sound ran DMA (directly from memory) to custom (ASIC) chips, so the computer was a screamer for multimedia. And even more amazing, the early OS fit on a single 256K (ROM) chip incomparison to today's 1.5GB "recommended" for WinXP...
After several generations of bankruptcys, Gateway bought the "technology" & patents in 2000. I think it is safe to say, they were helplessly (hopelessly?) lost with such technoloy and innovation.
Ah yes, I do remember the good old days - before the Gates of Seattle locked up the PC market and started chopping away at Apple trees in Silicon Valley.
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