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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/15/26 17:10, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-16 00:13:36 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:   
      
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   > The Amiga was technically the better computer, but the OS was very   
   > kludgey in comparison to the Mac OS, although the Amiga OS was still far   
   > better than Windoze.   
      
   	But it was based on TripOS which I know nothing else about. The commands   
   were simple to learn and I was not then as stupid as I am now. I used to   
   have   
   3 external 3.5 floppy drives and used multiple terminals to do format   
   and copy   
   for the Amiga Users Group here in San Francisco.  That was with my A1000   
   with an external expansion box with a GVP SCSI+ host card which could handle   
   up to 8 MB of 32 bit SIMMs.  I had only 2 MB of simms because of the price   
   for most of the time I used that card which I later moved to an A2000b   
   (mb/4.3).   
   It like the vast majority of my machines was second hand.   
      
   	The flaw tolerated for price purposes was lack of memory management.   
   	The 680x0 range cpus was quite expensive to get up to that capability.   
   	I think the 68020s were the lowest level that could have managed memory   
   but it was much more expensive than the 68000/14 MHz which is what the   
   AmigaOS was based on.  I finally got the cash together for accelerator   
   card with a   
   68060/50 MHz and thought I was doing well.  Still fell over when I ran   
   web browser   
   with word processor.  Always had Textra, a Forth-based text processor   
   running as   
   well.  Textra was shareware and vastly superior to KWrite or Kate.   
      
   > The biggest problem with the Amiga was that it was bungled by   
   > incompetent Commodore management who couldn't decide what to do with it   
   > - business computer, audio-video computer, home computer, all of the   
   > above. Apple pushed the Macintosh (and the previous Lisa and Apple II   
   > range) as business computers and in education.   
      
   	I can but agree. The ultimate owners never used computers and so they   
   did not realize what they had. CBM tended to point it at home use for games   
   and AV use.  The AV business had to use Amigas but with a card called the   
   Video Toaster.  It was very expensive but very capable and was sold   
   under other   
   labels as a Video Toaster computer.  Still was an Amiga hardware base   
   for the   
   same reasons the Video Toaster people chose it over other platforms in that   
   it was designed from scratch to use CRT/TV as output display.  Oh and   
   if you had to use Mac or MS-DOS we had cards for that too.  Amigas   
   with the Mac card were faster than production Macs.   
      
   >> I had a car then and drove all over the SF Bay Area and got my machine   
   >> in Sunnyvale or Saratoga at a shop that was exclusively Amiga.   
      
   	When I go the A2000b I had to drive down the peninsula to pick it up.   
      
   	I used to say that having the Amiga was like adding a room to my studio   
   apartment.   
      
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