What triggered the bankruptcy is pretty irrelevant. Commodore had been losing money for the entire time the Amiga was on sale and circling the drain. As someon

What triggered the bankruptcy is pretty irrelevant. Commodore had been losing money for the entire time the Amiga was on sale and circling the drain. As someone who was both an ardent Amiga and Mac user, yes AmigaDOS was awful. Yes, it was a multi-tasking DOS -- awesome. The utility of the multi-tasking in AmigaDOS (given the way applications split screen real estate -- i.e. into horizontal bands) was in practice far inferior to what Apple kludged with desk accessories, switcher, and eventually multifinder. AmigaDOS also used weird and inconsistent command-line conventions (that ARP made both better and more consistent). In any event, there's no point having multitasking if there are no decent applications. Amiga had, basically, DeluxePaint, games, and lots of cool software for facilitating piracy. (The Mac ports of DeluxePaint -- Studio/32 and Studio/8 -- were among my favorite all time applications.) > BTW, the flickering issue in hires for people who needed it Yes, having a third party hardware solution so you can display halfway decent office software is great. When I needed this, it wasn't available.