Difference between Amiga and Atari 520?

[chsedge]

it was not the builtin midi only but the fact on the ST you had cubase which wasn't available on the amiga. cubase dominated the music world for the subsequent years on st and on the mac then.

again at the end the software is maybe more important than the hardware...

[chsedge]

For completeness Tj we can say that the 030 lines featured new video modes at 32k or 256 colours (320x200, 640x480) and a sound chip better than the amiga one. I think prices of the Atari were always a bit lower then the Amiga couterparts, am I right?

[chsedge]

win95 is an hybrid 16bit/32bit system, win98 is not but it has compatibility with the dos stuff. winxp is based on a different kernel (derived from the NT family). If many people still use Win9X is because it has a lot of software and still good hw support even if is a discontinued product.

[chsedge]

Marco, fully pre-emptive multi-tasking existed since the 70's, and even GUI. Amiga has GUI later than the MAC, and at that time multi-tasking was a feature needed mainly on big machines. The TripOS project was a nice research, but it has many flaws that Amiga suffered for years.

What I find really good in it, was the microkernel approach, but MACH is just a more modern one. MAC OSX use a microkernel from MACH.

[chsedge]

well unix existed in flavours available to the personal computer market. since 85-86 a personal computer was just as powerful as a minicomputer from the 70's. UNIX was multiuser and based on a highly successful language.

The first flaw Amiga suffered for me is that was another set of formats (filesystems, os, libraries, hardware) in a world that had in 1986-87 (when Commodore started to push it seriously) already highly solid standards (and many in the software world.). You can then and today how is difficult to port an application from the open source world to Amiga. It was a nice OS but too much linked to the hardware (this was an old background scheme). I can't remember of any app in the Amiga World that also the other users (pc users, mac users, unix users) widely know. Yes there were good apps but no one of them became a standard that's for sure...(like Lotus, Photoshop, Word, Excel, Borland DB, emacs...)

can't take away the fact AmigaOS was a nice original OS...