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 Sources
1. Amiga - Wikipedia
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Years ahead of its time, the Amiga was the world's first multimedia, multitasking personal computer
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