alt Hacker NewsMy favourite tidbit about the Amiga is that it was the first platform that got PNG support in all its web browsers: you just had to install the png.datatype.
My favourite tidbit about the Amiga is that it was the first platform that got PNG support in all its web browsers: you just had to install the png.datatype.
AmigaOS was the first to bring a lot of smart ideas to a consumer platform.
I got my A1000 in late '85 and only had prior exposure to 8-bit home computers (C64, Atari, etc), CP/M and DOS (no mainframes, minis or workstations). I didn't actually use Macs or early Windows until the early 90s and it was shocking how backward they still seemed in some ways. I'd sort of the assumed the other major platforms were making similar advancements throughout by the late 80s and shocked to find out how wrong I was. It wasn't until the mid-90s that PCs and Macs felt like they mostly caught up on QoL and OS features.