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The desktop GUI system (Workbench) was more Xerox than Macintosh, and stayed stuck in 1982 for a long time. But the Amiga was far more than just a games machine
by mortenjorck 13y ago
The desktop GUI system (Workbench) was more Xerox than Macintosh, and stayed stuck in 1982 for a long time. But the Amiga was far more than just a games machine: Its multimedia capabilities were so far in advance of anything else for a decade that it became to music and video what the Mac was to design and publishing.
The best example of this would be the Video Toaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster For much of the 1990s, it was the king of real-time broadcast video production, unsurpassed until the advent of hardware-accelerated PC graphics late in the decade.