It was the summer of 1994. My Amiga 500 had died due to a misplaced glass of tea. I started looking at my options to replace my A500.
Also, at this time I was preparing to go off to college. All the schools I was interested in were used DOS/Windows 3.11 and taught PC Pascal and/or C.
(Odd thought, was at college I actually came across more Amiga users than Mac users back then).
So I bought a 486-DX2 66 Packard Bell at Circuit City. I had VESA Graphics, 8 MB of RAM, 120 MB HD, Soundblaster 16, 16" Color Monitor and could easily do 800x600x16bit.
It got me into DOS/Windows 3.11 Programming and I haven't looked back ever since. As for stability of an OS, it wasn't until Windows 2000 I really liked Windows.
I still love my Amiga - recently getting me an A2000 to play some of my favorite games - but in 94, for what you got in a clone, an Amiga was too expensive!
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