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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by snvzz on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:44AM (#24917278)
I'd put the emphasis on clever design.

The custom chips achieved a lot of functionality with a low transistor count due to clever design[0].

AmigaOS[1] achieved a lot of functionality (preemptive multitasking with priorities, fast interrupt response, elegant APIs[2]) and low overhead despite.

Links are Amiga as of ~1991 (ECS and AmigaOS 2.0).

[0]: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gui...

[1]: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Libraries_Manual_gu...

[2]: http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Includes_and_Autodo...

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by teknopurge on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:25AM (#24919051)
Jay Miner was a very clever engineer.
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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by snvzz on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:27AM (#24919072)
That he was, but the chipset wasn't a one man job, nor was AmigaOS (to which AIUI Jay Miner didn't even contribute).
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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by teknopurge on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:34AM (#24919945)
Totally agree. That entire team was ahead of their time, and arguably produced more efficient and elegant technology than many in the industry do today.

Also if I remember correctly, Jay's dog helped. Cannot forget the pooch...

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