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Nostalgia for those of us that were there back then of course plays a big role, but knowledge is also important. Had Amiga won the race against the PC back then, today's personal computers would be the equivalent of flying cars. Not many people for example recalls that in the mid-80s we already AmigaOS software for creating GUIs (PowerWindows), that was years before the first Visual Basic was created.

Edit: I forgot that although the OS was fully multitasking, it lacked memory protection and management, so a rogue process could easily crash other processes or the entire system by writing parts of the memory that it shouldn't have touched. Also, there was no such thing as resource tracking, so if I malloc'ed say one kb, I had to remember to free it before exiting, or it would remain allocated until the next reboot. Those were limitations that I found immensely useful when learning to optimize things.