Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward. When introduced, it was one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16-bit or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, and mouse-based GUIs. The Amiga differs from its contemporaries through custom hardware to accelerate graphics and sound, including sprites, a blitter, and four channels of sample-based audio, and it runs a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS, with a desktop environment called Workbench.
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SignificanceYears ahead of its time, the Amiga was the world's first multimedia, multitasking personal computer 1 FAQs
Did Commodore design the Amiga itself?
Commodore bought the mostly complete machine from the company that developed it.
Not from the start. The machine was developed by a company named Amiga, which had run out of money and was looking for a buyer. Commodore bought the mostly complete machine, put more money into it and pushed it through the final stages of development in a hurry. Commodore then released it in 1985.
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1. Amiga - Wikipedia
Reception section, PC World citation
Years ahead of its time, the Amiga was the world's first multimedia, multitasking personal computer
Infobox: discontinued
1994 (1996)
In Field: Computer Architecture, Lead sentence
Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward.
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