The ability to multi task using a 16 bit processor.
Should focus on graphics and sound to create a true multimedia experience.
Independent processors that can handle video, audio and memory handling.
A computer should be useful to creative professionals as well as accountants.
All these things we take for granted now, but in 1985 this was a revolution. A revolution called Amiga.
The funny thing about it is that the Amiga was often derided for being a "gaming" computer. With all its graphics and sound capabilities it was a fantastic game platform. Yet all of the things that made it a great gaming platform was really just foreshadowing for the future of home and business computing.
Commodore and Amiga even had Apple playing catch up. The Apple IIgs came along in 1986 with many of the same capabilities. This machine was in a lot of ways the precursor to the Mac.
So to you I raise my glass Amiga! I loved you and you helped make me into the geek I am today.
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