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Hypex 
Amiga existed in the 1970's!
Posted on 27-Aug-2015 4:21:28
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Hey, check out this online magazine I found when looking for an AROS install guide. According to PCLinuxOS magazine there were Amiga computers in the 1970's! But it wasn't until halfway through the next decade the Amiga had an OS!

I didn't know that. I wonder how they used a 1970's Amiga without an OS?

http://pclosmag.com/html/issues/201103/page15.html

Well that's not the only article that missed a fact check. I keep reading in Amiga Future how the Amiga had 16-bit sound when it obviously didn't. Paper can't be corrected but online can.

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olegil 
Re: Amiga existed in the 1970's!
Posted on 27-Aug-2015 7:38:53
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@Hypex

Ach, who cares about facts these days?

Truth is obsolete, truthiness is the way forward.

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Steady 
Re: Amiga existed in the 1970's!
Posted on 27-Aug-2015 15:01:45
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@olegil

Lol. Truthiness.

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pavlor 
Re: Amiga existed in the 1970's!
Posted on 27-Aug-2015 16:30:21
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@olegil

One time Amiga article on Wikipedia was vandalised with such nonesense. Maybe they only used old source...


Edit: Wording is from Wikipedia... I fear they used source I had in mind.

Last edited by pavlor on 27-Aug-2015 at 04:31 PM.

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Hypex 
Re: Amiga existed in the 1970's!
Posted on 28-Aug-2015 17:00:32
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@olegil

The media tries to convince me we live in a scientific world with facts but this is simply not the case. For years now. This website follows this "truthiness " model.

But it's not about the facts here, it's about someone who should know better if they grew up then or were even alive at the time to use the computers of the period. Probably what he meant was Commodore computers of the 70's and 80's. And some people even think the Amiga was some 8-bit micro because it was a Commodore. But I doubt those people owned one personally. Or they would know better.

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