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When the author describes the Amiga as an understandable system, he's reasonably accurate. Even the lowly Amiga DOS manual documented the Assembly instructions and the in-the-box Microsoft produced Amiga Basic allowed fairly direct access to the hardware.

These pale though in comparison to the two Amiga Rom Kernel Manuals and the Amiga Hardware Manual. [1] These were sold in the computer section of the shopping mall bookstore back in the day, and even today provide a detailed explanation of a multi-tasking operating system and simple graphics programming.

[Edit] Part of the reason why people continue to hack on it is because it is practical. The this-is-how-to-turn-it-on-and-use-the-mouse Introduction to the Amiga 500, it had schematics in the back; pinouts for all the ports; and pinouts and block diagrams for the important chips.

[1] https://computerarchive.org/files/comp/books/amiga/Amiga_Har...