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On 9/20/24 17:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:40:49 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> The Amiga would have fared much better if Commodore's board wasn't so
>> busy running the company into the ground while siphoning off bigger
>> salaries than IBM's bigwigs were getting.
> 
> The Amiga made a giant leap in hardware capability, then stood still as
> competitors surpassed it. For example, the Apple Mac was able to improve
> its hardware with minimal breakage in app compatibility, because of its
> good software abstractions. Whereas Amiga apps had to work directly with
> the hardware, so that hardware could not be improved without breaking
> those apps.

	Good applications on the Amiga did not run directly on the
hardware.  The AmigaOS ran on the hardware and lots of gamers and 
demo-coders would exploit the hardware ignoring the OS. The OS had 
everything
but memory management.

	bliss

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