What People Liked about Amiga
Introductory stuff
On why Amiga Should be Different
What Gateway said
What the Amiga Community has Said
Lists: What we like about Amiga ..
including 'Peter's long list'
The Unique Amiga Culture
Huge Public Domain Software ('Shareware')
Simplicity for the User: Ease of Use
Cost Effectiveness
The Amiga as a Whole Computer
Amiga: Fast Startup and SwitchOff
Self-Booting
Any Size of Icon
Setting User Preferences
ARexx - The Amiga's High Level Inter-Process Communication
Amiga has Command Line Interface Integrated with GUI
Easy User Interface Programming
No 2000 Bug
System Technical Documentation
Concerning the Main Hardware
The Amiga's Special ('Chip') Memory
Amiga Multiprocessing Hardware
The COPPER
The Blitter
AutoConfig Hardware
Concerning the Operating System, AmigaOS
Amiga OS is Well Designed
and
Elegant
Shared Libraries Well Implemented
AmigaOS has Superb Pre-emptive Multitasking
Open Architecture
and
Flexible
Flexible FileSystems
Multi-purpose Files
Datatypes
Locale
Emulation of other Platforms
AmigaOS is Stable
AmigaOS is Efficient
Fast Task Switching
Resource Efficiency
Nearly Real-time Operating System
The Amiga's Messaging System
Concerning Graphics and Sound
Video Capability
AmigaOS Designed for MultiMedia
Animation
Color Cycling
IFF: The Interchange File Format
The Amiga Screen Concept
Hold And Modify Display Mode
Dual Playfield Display
Amiga has Built-in Sound
Copyright (c)
Andrew Basden
2005.
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