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1991 was basically peak Amiga! Soon after that, 386's with SVGA and Sound Blaster cards started to become pretty cheap. I gave up on the Amiga around 1994, got
by icedchai 3y ago
1991 was basically peak Amiga! Soon after that, 386's with SVGA and Sound Blaster cards started to become pretty cheap. I gave up on the Amiga around 1994, got a 486, and ran Slackware Linux.
- wyclif 3y agoAlmost the same trajectory for me, except BASIC first then C and K&R on an Amiga. Also switched to PCs in 1994 and installed Linux.
- icedchai 3y agoYes, I was also very into BASIC for a while! First AppleSoft on my Apple IIe, then AmigaBasic. I also played around with some basic compilers before moving to Lattice C (then it became SAS C.)
- dekhn 3y agoYep. In 91 I had a 286 which couldn't do multitasking or interesting graphics. Compared to the amiga, which had multitasking, high quality graphics, and genlock... By 94 I had a 486/66 with 4MB RAM running TAMU Linux (and Windows 3.1 I guess) basically so I had access to g++ and emacs (having no money for "Turbo C++" on Windows). It was too slow, so I upgraded the RAM (spending close to $1K upgrading to the max, 32MB). Much of my career rests on what I learned about Linux on that machine.