![]() ![]() For instance, one chip can work on playing music in the background and at the same time a compressed animation is also running smoothly by another chip. different processors handle ifferent tasks. There are at least four procossers in an Amiga, which enables asymmetrical multiprocessing i.e. Although an Amiga uses Motoroloa's processors, the same as those in a 68K Mac, the chips are customized. Amiga's multimedia functions is closely tied to its multitasking capability. Back in the 1980s when RAM was expensive and hard drives were not common, Amigas was able to handle multitasking from a floppy boot disk with only 128K of RAM.Some effects in the James Bond movie, Golden Eye, were also created in this platform. Although the effects in Jurrasic Park were produced in SGI workstations, the previsuaization was performed in Amigas. Many special effects in TV series such as SeaQuest, RoboCop, and Babylon 5 were made with Amigas. Multimedia graphics is a major strength of Amiga.The first platform to port this UNIX version was the Amiga 3000(UX). In 1991, the release of System VR4 by AT&T was a major development of UNIX. Further, if one considers UNIX as a serious platform, one should admire the forward-thinking of Amiga designers. Indeed, once NASA enigneers used it for a space mission. The Amiga computer suffered from a misperceived image as a "game" machine.It is only now, and only with a whole new code set in Windows NT/2000, that we're finally making progress - gaining features the Commodore gave us some 16 years ago. While "celebrating" 20-year birhday of PC in 2001, Doug Barney, a columnist at Network Computing, said, ![]() "Since the introduction of the Amiga 1000 in 1985, Amiga has represented the embodiment of the efficient use of memory and hard drive capacity, while pioneering industry developments in multimedia, 32-bit multi-tasking and autoconfiguration." Gateway 2000 made a concise comment to Amiga technology:.This computer platform is the pioneer of multimedia and multitasking. ![]() A m i g a, a Spanish word which means "girl friend," is a line of computer models introduced by Commodore Corp. ![]()
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