Amiga: 19 years ahead of its time

Can you believe it’s been nearly 19 years since the world’s first preemptive multitasking microcomputer was first marketed by Commodore? The custom chipset on the Amiga had RAM that was permanently married to the graphics microprocessor chipset, which includes the “Agnus” as shown above. This RAM was shared by both the graphics set and the system processor, which in those days was a Motorola 68000 16-bit monster running at a whopping 7 MHz. That’s why they called it “chip RAM”. Now here in 2006, it appears Intel is following suit, with their introduction of memory onboard the system processor. Dear old Amiga had memory on the graphics processor–which was priveliged memory with accelerated bandwidth. Some old ideas are still good, 19 years later. Check it out.

25 thoughts on “Amiga: 19 years ahead of its time”

It just so happened that the other week I was looking at Amiga OS evolution.

Damn I thought, it would appear that since Microsoft gained dominance of the OS, things have been on cruise control.

With the Amiga back in 1985 we had a 4096 multi-tasking, GUI driven machine with 8 channel stereo sound running n half a meg of ram!

It’s a shame that computer innovation has been on told but at least telephony is now being democratised!

And for those nostalgic about the Amiga see http://www.flashtro.com/index.php

You’re so right. I discovered the Amiga about 15-16 years ago. At the time the music, video, and graphics were lightyears ahead of everything else.

Not enough people know just how far ahead of all the competition the Amiga was when it was first released. Unfortunately, Commodore did nothing with it and never succeeded at marketing the Amiga to fund the development of sustained improvements to allow the Amiga to stay ahead of its competitors. A great idea and product left to wither, now only kept alive by the users that refuse to let it die.

I wouldn’t mind dying — it’s that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
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