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The 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
by sien 13y ago
The 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.