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   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/15/2026 9:10 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
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   > 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.   
   >   
   > bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2026.01- Linux 6.12.71 pclos1- KDE   
   > Plasma 6.5.5   
   >   
      
   I still have my A1000 (with SideCar RAM expansion) down in the basement.   
      
      
   Fun fact: Some of the CGI for Babylon 5 was done on the Amiga with   
   Video Toaster.   
      
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