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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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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But then you'd have had to have an Amiga. Unless video editing suddenly became the main business in the world (Video Toaster!), the Amiga was never going to go mainstream, any more than an SGI workstation would have gone mainstream.
The topic of this increasingly off-topic tangent is if or how MS put PCs (read IBM PCs) into the mainstream, not what put computers in general into the mainstream. That was inarguably (ha!) IBM's business clout combined with spreadsheet programs and word processors. A business company making business machines that could do business tasks. The IBM PC would have won that battle no matter if they got their OS from MS or DEC or AT&T or Joe Blow. No video-heavy game machine like the Amiga, nor a hacker's darling like my Apple II, stood a chance.