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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2026-02-16 15:21:35 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:   
   > On 2/15/2026 9:10 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >> On 2/15/26 17:10, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> On 2026-02-16 00:13:36 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:   
   >>   
   >> snip   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > pt   
      
   Yep. "Babylon 5" and "SeaQuest DSV", among others. Apparently the later   
   Video Toaster 4000 version was product tested by Wil Wheaton (Wesley in   
   Star Trek The Next Generation). After Commodore's collapse, the Video   
   Toaster mvoed over to Windoze PCs,   
      
   The Amiga was also used for some of the earliest "VR" games in games arcades.   
      
   I still have a pile of Amiga floppy disks, but no way to access them.   
   The CatWeasel, etc. cards are simply too expensive for the one-off use.   
      
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