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Comment by nikau

It wasn't overengineered, it was well engineered.

It was cheaper than a PC and much nicer to use - Windows was terrible in that era, the janky mouse jumping all over the place under load due to no hardware sprite and serial buffer overrun.

Meanwhile an Amiga under 100% CPU would have a silky smooth mouse due to hardware mouse port tracking and sprite pointer.

Then you had stuff like autoconfig hardware that was 10 years ahead of its time.

parent nikau 1 year ago

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