The Amiga brings up so many topics and memories for me that it's hard to know where to start. People who had an Amiga back then may agree that technically and

The Amiga brings up so many topics and memories for me that it's hard to know where to start. People who had an Amiga back then may agree that technically and conceptually it was so far advanced compared particularly to Microsoft's offerings, that any comparison of merits vs market success led to frustration. I had an Amiga 3000, which was pretty rare and one of the first workbench 2.0 machines. It was quite buggy in the firmware and more when we first got it, but Commodore was very good to us partially because my father worked at a private university in the Northeast. They replaced two machines that were fried by NewTek digiview almost immediately for free (The DigiView board was really pushing the limit of the Amiga 2000 and 2500, and had some incompatibility with the 3000 that actually fried our motherboards). The Amiga also had some amazing software, such as AmivaVision – object oriented visuals scripting that was like a visual HyperCard/PowerPoint, back in 1992. When Linux came along, I was pleasantly surprised to see that I felt quite at home in its environment since the Amiga had a unix-like directory structure and shell environment. It's great to be seeing the Amiga get this sort of attention. One can only wonder what sort of computing environments would be common today if it had been a commercial success instead of Windows and Mac OS.