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by cha-cho 3734 days ago
My first serious bit of computing was on an Amiga2500 with a Video Toaster card. At the time Windows for WorkGroups was getting a lot of attention so I started playing around with PCs and eventually bought a Windows notebook. I was shocked to learn that with Windows I could not seamlessly download a file in the background and continue other work. I eventually installed OS/2 and ran Windows in its own space just so I could multitask like I was accustom to doing on an Amiga. Amiga users were (and some still are) a fanatical bunch for good reason.