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In many ways it is still ahead of its time today. All electrical signals coming from user input devices are causing interrupts in the CPU resulting in a jmp directly into the interrupt routine which gives you the unmatched I/O latency and responsiveness. In a world of USB polling, CPU sleep/wakeup, compositing desktops and slow switching LCD-Displays it is easy to see why people enjoy going back to the Amiga for good old times because some things really were better.


On that matter, you'd think vectored interrupts and tight interrupt service times would be standard today, but alas.




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