> we did use the damn things for stuff beyond games back in the day, you know. This. The Amiga's multitasking was amazing back in the mid/late 1980s. My favori

> we did use the damn things for stuff beyond games back in the day, you know. This. The Amiga's multitasking was amazing back in the mid/late 1980s. My favorite example: I'm in my dorm room, writing a paper in a non-western-alphabet language[1] on my Amiga. The phone rings. My BBS, running in the background, answers the phone and someone logs in. This all happens with zero impact on my using the computer. This blew my fellow students' minds. I'd have to show the BBS user's activity for them to believe me. All this on a machine with only floppy disks. I couldn't afford a hard drive until later. I also wrote solvers for math problems in AmigaBASIC, fancier programs in Modula 2 (I couldn't afford the C compiler), and, of course, played games. Edited to add [1] ---- [1] There was one PC that supported this. Not having to sign up to use it made getting homework done much easier.