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Old 08-17-2011, 10:16 PM   #71
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Sure, but things might have gotten moving better with a different windowing GUI (perhaps derived from X or GEOS) running faster and more reliably on less powerful hardware, or with perhaps a more robust OS (maybe derived from *NIX) that didn't require rebooting after every odd look.
Not X or NIX.. AmigaDOS was an awesome OS. It actually ran well in 512meg of ram. The computer had true multi-tasking with support chips for the graphics and the sound. It was ahead of it's time and Commodore mismanaged the hell out of it.
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