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Betteridge's Law applies. Gaming helped cement DOS/Windows victory on the desktop because most enthusiasts bought computers to play games, but it did nothing f
by Tloewald 13y ago
Betteridge's Law applies.
Gaming helped cement DOS/Windows victory on the desktop because most enthusiasts bought computers to play games, but it did nothing for the Amiga (which was great for gaming but had a lousy ecosystem for office stuff).
On the other hand, the desktop market is collapsing and you might think that the kind of person who still wants/needs a desktop might be more likely to be the kind of person who wants/needs Linux. That's possible but it's not the perspective taken by the article.
- quarterto 13y agoquarterto's law: Any headline which ends in a question mark will have a comment on it citing Betteridge's Law.
- sien 13y agoThe Amiga had an excellent ecosystem for office stuff. Prowrite on the Amiga wasn't bettered for word processing until Word 6 5+ years later. The Amiga could also be hooked up to a laser printer like a Mac, but not quite as well. The main reason the Amiga was beaten because by the time it arrived on the scene DOS already had the market.
- Tloewald 13y agoI was a heavy Amiga user in the day and constantly got into arguments with people advocating its office software. No Amiga word processor was capable of producing decent output or handling documents longer than ten pages. They looked fine (ProWrite was a MacWrite clone, Excellence was a WriteNow clone) but didn't stand up to any kind of serious use. The Amiga was the world's bestselling home computer and utterly dominant in the games market outside the US for several years but never became a credible desktop productivity computer. Having non-square pixels in its highest resolution non flickery display mode sure did not help.