Re:What made the Amiga so great
by snvzz on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:48AM
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>Meanwhile, I typed my angry responses on my 33 MHz 80386 with a 387 math co processor, a sound blaster, and VGA graphics on a system with a case actually designed to hold a hard-drive and 2 entire MB of RAM.
... which cost you a fortune and yet was still worse than the oldest and cheapest Amiga, nevermind the A1200 which was made available around that time.
I finally "upgraded" to an Athlon with Linux in 2000. I do not feel like I missed anything in between; Through the years, I had lots of chances to extensively use 386/486 with DOS and Pentiums with Windows 9x elsewhere than home, and at no point I thought the user experience held a candle to my Amiga, which by the way was just an A500 with 1MB RAM and no hard drive.
... which cost you a fortune and yet was still worse than the oldest and cheapest Amiga, nevermind the A1200 which was made available around that time.
I finally "upgraded" to an Athlon with Linux in 2000. I do not feel like I missed anything in between; Through the years, I had lots of chances to extensively use 386/486 with DOS and Pentiums with Windows 9x elsewhere than home, and at no point I thought the user experience held a candle to my Amiga, which by the way was just an A500 with 1MB RAM and no hard drive.
PCs just sucked. Quake was cool, though.