There was one difference between Amiga and Mac/Windows that was noticeable on the slow machines of the day: It was more responsive. Not only did Amiga have pre

There was one difference between Amiga and Mac/Windows that was noticeable on the slow machines of the day: It was more responsive. Not only did Amiga have preemptive multitasking. The window system ("Intuition") ran behaviour and redraw of apps' widgets in its own task, making them responsive even if the apps owning them were lagging. Compare that to Windows 3.11 of the day, where the entire GUI would hang while waiting for an app to redraw anything in one of its windows.