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by rodgerd 1143 days ago
The Amiga vs ST is interesting, because the ST ran away with a lot of the mindshare because of the built-in MIDI capability.

The Amiga, on the other hand, didn't have that (or even a synth chip), but it did have the Paula chip, which gave you the ability to play four channels of samples, which got you (generally) 8-14 bit/22 kHz output on the original machines. On that side of the fence you got a lot of trackers - four channel sequencers - to take advantage of the digital audio.