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I will look you in the eye and say the Amiga and ST in 1986 were better than Windows or Ubuntu in 2016.


They might have been better at the small subset of things Windows and Ubuntu can do that the Amiga and ST were also capable of, but they are not "better".

A single screwdriver is better than a toolbox at being light and easy to carry. It is not better overall.


But they still make screwdrivers.


And I'll look you right back and call bullshit. I used an Amiga in the late eighties. It was a fantastic machine for its time, certainly more advanced than the contemporary 286 PCs, but Windows 95 was markedly superior (as it should have been, a decade later), let alone modern Windows or Linux.

Yes, sometimes things get screwed up and we get understandably frustrated, but that does not license revisionist history.




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