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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Bluefish HTML Editor
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:08:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:35:01 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

> On 9/21/24 18:15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:15:59 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> It didn’t have a very good graphics abstraction layer. In short, it
>> wasn’t a very good OS, which is why the apps ignored it.
> 
> The applications I used used the OS or I did not buy them.

You can’t have had much of a choice of apps, then.

> ... mostly the higher end were used as places to
> run the Video Toaster hardward on.

The Video Toaster is a prime example of a product that was so heavily tied 
to hardware features of the Amiga, it was an NTSC-only product: there 
could be no PAL version because there was no room in the Amiga memory 
layout for that to work.