My brother in law is a graphic artist. When the machine came out, I recommended that he go see one. He bought it immediately. There was a very loyal following of the machine among graphic artists for a long time. It was a tool of the trade, not a novelty or luxury.<div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Jan Verhoeven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jan@verhoeven272.nl" target="_blank">jan@verhoeven272.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tuesday 29 January 2013 17:41:51 Srinivas Nayak wrote:<br>
> Dear All,<br>
><br>
> My recent discovery is another small nice OS, AmigaOS, that existed<br>
> near around the same time with Oberon OS.<br>
><br>
> How it compares with Oberon?<br>
<br>
</div>The Amiga was one of the better personal computers of the era.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amigas" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amigas</a><br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Surprisingly, I found a page<br>
> <a href="http://oldwww.nvg.ntnu.no/amiga/amigafaq/AmigaFAQ_25.html" target="_blank">http://oldwww.nvg.ntnu.no/amiga/amigafaq/AmigaFAQ_25.html</a><br>
> saying that, Oberon and Oberon-2 compilers were available on AmigaOS!<br>
><br>
> Anybody in this group has experience with AmigaOS?<br>
<br>
</div>The machine was considered a game console, but in fact it was more a<br>
crossover between what we now would call a media centre and a netbook.<br>
<br>
I never used one. I didn't want to be connected with a game console (in<br>
those days) although the Amiga had a 68k processor.<br>
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