It's competition was PC of that time which was worse in every regard including price. However, it did not have an image of being a game machine which helped a lot.

I am old enough to remember having these kind of discussion with people buying more expensive PCs because they were for serious work.

Amiga had quite a few cool office type applications like Pagestream.

The video wasn't an issue when using Commodore monitors.

Yes it was. I used an Amiga with a Commodore monitor and while it was a lot better than any TV or other composite monitor, the interlacing was still noticeable and people's eyes would go wonky staring at that for eight hours a day.

I bought an A2024 monitor and ran all apps at 1024x800 60Hz. It was a glorious time.

Any monitor from back then would look awful now. I do remember noticing the interlacing on the Amiga though.

It was awful when compared to the paperwhite monochrome displays of a Mac or the Atari ST. It's frankly one of the things that set the Amiga back in the productivity regard.

There was a WordPerfect port, but at least the initial versions were slow and did not feel like they took advantage of the OS. In other words, it was a bit of a rush job.

It was far from perfect, but Amiga WP 4.1 was way better than WP 5.1 for DOS! (I was a heavy user of both at the time.)

Man, this brings back memories. I spent many sleepless nights using it to format friends' school work.

> Maybe if Commodore had bothered to include a scan doubler by default?

They did in the Amiga 3000; It has a VGA 15pin d-sub connector on the back. Only works with modern LCDs if the Amiga is in NTSC mode though.