Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Amiga 2500 (1989)" video.

  1.  @SeaJay_Oceans  The first Amiga came out in 1985, and did not significantly improve from that.
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  2. A standard has to be open, so that others can copy it. The Amiga hardware took a giant leap forward, then stood still as others caught up, and then overtook it. It never had a good software layer, like the Macintosh, that was capable of adapting to newer hardware.
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  3. This was about the year the Acorn Archimedes came out. Remember that had an ARM chip in it which, at 8MHz and RISC-based, ran rings performance-wise around anything else in its price range. Its misfortune was that it was non-IBM-compatible ... and British.
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  4. When would you say was their “time”?
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