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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by sprash on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:46AM (#24920141)
In many ways it is still ahead of its time today. All electrical signals coming from user input devices are causing interrupts in the CPU resulting in a jmp directly into the interrupt routine which gives you the unmatched I/O latency and responsiveness. In a world of USB polling, CPU sleep/wakeup, compositing desktops and slow switching LCD-Displays it is easy to see why people enjoy going back to the Amiga for good old times because some things really were better.
Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by snvzz on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:13PM (#24925676)
On that matter, you'd think vectored interrupts and tight interrupt service times would be standard today, but alas.