| I sold my Amiga 600 in late 90's. I bought it in 1993. My previous computer was an Acorn Electron, which had, like 32k of usable RAM. I didn't get much use out of it. A friend said he has an Amiga, and it had 1M of RAM. I was astonished as to how much RAM that was. I saw a new vid on YouTube recently with a guy showing how to use the Octamed tracker. By coincidence, the guy that bought my Amiga all those years ago bought it primarily for the tracker. The Amiga is a surprisingly capable machine. I saw a demo where they booted up Debian on the Amiga. It was slow! It just goes to show how compact the AmigaOS is. The whole OS came on 3 single-sided (?) floppies, and one of them was for fonts. Amazing, a whole OS on less than 2 HD floppies. It appears that AmigaOS is STILL being released commercially . The latest release was 6 months ago. Amazing, considering that Commodore died in 1994. There is AROS, a free version of AmigaOS, which is still actively development. Development seems to be slow, though. AmigaOS is available for the MK68K and PowerPC. I saw a PowerPC version awhile ago. They're not cheap, though, which is a pity. I really thought that an AmigaOS is combo with a Raspberry Pi would be an awesome hit. OS development on Pis has been a disappointment, actually. I was expecting more. Everyone just runs Linux. Kids these days need 8G just to run Firefox, of course. |
If you'd bought a typical Acorn in 1993, it would have come with either 1, 2 or 4 MiB RAM.
You can run the Acorn OS (RISC OS) on a Raspberry Pi.