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The Amiga line has the same 68K processors as the Apple Mac line. Just for 1/3rd the cost. For the price of a Mac 128 I bought an Amiga 1000 with 512K of RAM, 5.25" IBM compatible drive and Transformer PC EMulation software. The Mac had Mac Charlie to run PC software but it was too expensive and not as compatible as Transformer. I also got a 1200 Baud modem this was in 1986, the Amiga came out in 1985 based on Tripos and the Atari Lorrine project which dates back to 1980 and they didn't have the money to finish it. Workbench did trume preemptive multitasking and MacOS at the time did not it did task switching like MS-DOS.


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