Amigas make excellent controllers, even to this day, because of the fast interrupt response time and the ability to control execution priorities. CMB/Amiga came very close to tweaking the OS and marketing it as a hard real time system.
I have been, and continue, to use one at work since 1987 for a real time control application. The A1000 has long been replaced by an A4000, but the custom wirewrap Zorro boards plugged in are still chugging along. (Wirewrap boards only have a life expectency of 20 years due to the contact corrosion, so please don't tell them:)
I spent yesterday ay a conference for VxWorks, the US$20000 per CPU operating system that is more like US$50000 per computer by the time you get it running, and only now with current hardware are they getting the response thet I measured over 10 years ago on an A4000 :lol:
The Amiga OS is so deterministic and fast that it was used as a controller for a very time-critical device quite a while ago - the Video Toaster; maybe you have heard of it.
