I haven't known it, but it seemed incredible at that time:

According the History of Computing Project, the Amiga 1000 created by Jay Miner and its OS designed by Carl Sassenrath, “causes an enormous shock among the users. The computer is so advanced for its time that even the marketing department of Commodore does not know what they are up to.”

Amiga 1000 was the first graphical multi-tasking environment, and also, as Byte magazine, in 1994, remembered as “the first multimedia computer… so far ahead of its time that almost nobody–including Commodore’s marketing department–could fully articulate what it was all about.” Even 20 years later, PC World still rated the Amiga 1000 as the 7th greatest PC of all time and the 37th best tech product of all time.

3D animation, full-motion video, fancy TV processing, four-voice stereo sound chip, speech synthesis, all this allowed the birth of Multimedia softwares like Soundtracker, the first “tracker-style” music sequencing program. At that time, the IBM PCs didn’t even do color!

In case you're interested Carl Sassenrath was the Architect of the Amiga OS and he's now the Designer behind Rebol's Language.

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