I think it's interesting to think about the biggest outliers in performance in the past. I was lucky enough to experience the Apple 2 and then later Amiga 1000

I think it's interesting to think about the biggest outliers in performance in the past. I was lucky enough to experience the Apple 2 and then later Amiga 1000 in their respective eras. Each of these were ~5 years earlier than similarly capable machines. I had color games on my Apple 2 (Woz and his incredible NTSC/PAL coloring hacks) long before i had color video games on any other system, including the much later IBM PC era where CGA/EGA/VGA was an add-on feature. When the much later C64 came out the Apple 2 still played pretty much the same games, just without the audio. The Amiga had hardware acceleration for graphics and sound as standard, long before other systems did the same thing and again was way ahead of contemporaries. Less Woz style cleverness in hardware and more "throw in every feature from the start" architecture. Still there's a reason this system is so popular in the demoscene today. This used to wow people with the graphics even in the Windows 95 era and i used to explain to people "we've had this computer since 1985" to much disbeleif.