I wasn't that impressed with the Mac GUI the first time I saw it. There was no color, it could barely do more than beep, and there wasn't much software availabl

I wasn't that impressed with the Mac GUI the first time I saw it. There was no color, it could barely do more than beep, and there wasn't much software available yet so it seemed pretty useless compared to my Commodore 64. I had Magic Desk on the C64 in 1983 and while it wasn't a bitmapped desktop, it was a desktop with many similarities to the Mac. It even had a pointer. When the Amiga came out, there was no way I was choosing a Mac over the powerful Amiga with 4096 colors, stereo sound, multi-tasking and amazing games. While I had it I was able to digitize and edit images, record and edit audio, built and used a MIDI interface with it, and even went online with it even before the web was a thing. I also ran a BBS on it and was still able to use the Amiga for all these other things at the same time. The Mac was the first commercially available bitmapped GUI but the Amiga was the first system with a bitmapped GUI that was like modern OSes with color, sound, and multi-tasking. The Mac didn't have those things until later.