backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (04/23/88)
[Disclaimer: I wrote this about a month ago. I take no responsibility for a lack of correct "computer history", technical aspects, etc... Its just a story! (gave me some laughes to write it one day when I was bored) Amiga - Evolution of a Revolution In the beginning man created the Apple I. The Apple was the first viable computer for home use. Before the Apple I, most computers could only be owned by the greater ones, the clan known as "The Corporations". Apple started a revolution; soon many computers began to arise - man had learned. Though many computers were born, most succumbed to the terrible plague known as "competition", and died a premature death. Among these pitiful creatures were the TI 99/4A, the Timex Sinclair, and the Atari 400, to name just a few. Somehow a small number of computers managed to struggle into the cruel world, yet they were still generally based upon the soul of "The First", the 6502. One day, a miracle occurred. No longer was "The First", or any of its counterparts, considered efficient enough, even for home use. For many days man pleaded for a new beginning. What they received was a hardly recognizable kludge that was "user friendly", with no color and an extremely small screen. Man looked at the object called "Mac", and went back to their previous machines which they had deemed to be obsolete, primitive, proto-computers. The "Mac" was overpriced, had no software, and generally didn't do much more than their old computers had done. After many months man began to grow uneasy again. Some even looked at the Mac again, and decided that in some ways it actually was a step up. Man needed more computing power, but didn't know where to turn. Many men decided to flee to the underworld, and began using "IBM's"(Idiotic Business Machines), even though a frontal lobotomy was required by anyone purchasing such a monstrosity. Fortunately a man named Jay Miner looked at the "Mac", and saw a spark. The spark, of course, was the "Mac's" soul (much as the 6502 had been the spark of Apple's). This man of men then looked at the computers which the "Corporations" were using, and said, "I can do that!". The second generation of personal computers then arose. Miner and associates did something which had previously been thought impossible: they melded a personal computer with a super computer (the type the "corporations" use), and made the first "super home computer". It was dubbed the "Amiga". The Amiga had true multi-tasking, thousands of colors, 4 polyphonic stereo voices, and an array of other "super computer - like" features. Though this fortune had occurred, a much greater misfortune had arisen; so many people had gotten frontal lobotomies as a result of being sold into the IBM world, that the Amiga was not witnessed by most as the "second coming of personal computers" (as the event was later named), instead people asked, "is that an IBM compatible or something?". Years went by, and a few great men joined the ranks of the Amiga, but all in all, the Amiga was doing rather poorly. IBM's Apples, and other machines based on these, or similar to these flourished yet again. Commodore, the company marketing the Amiga, was in trouble, and they decided to do something about it. A team of individuals set out to make two machines that even the most lobotomized "IBM" types would realize to be the computer for them, as well as everyone else. Although the designers of these two machines still over-estimated the intelligence of many of the "IBM" types, many of the ones with some scrap of intellect left began to convert; mainly because the Amiga 2000 (one of the ne machines) offered a card that allowed IBM compatibility. The other machine became widely accepted by the market which had been patiently waiting with their Apple's, C=64's, and other computers with the outdated soul known as "6502". Finally the 1st generation home computers which had been obsolete for so many years were being replaced by the Amiga. Many other companies attempted to walk in the Amiga's footsteps; most of which, such as the Atari ST, and the Mac SE, (an attempt to make one of the Amiga's inspirations into a viable competitor for the Amiga) were soon erased from history. Soon all the competition ebbed away, and the Amiga became the only personal computer recognized by any but the most devout IBM slaves. --- This piece of pseudo non-fiction brought to you by: (-------\--------------------------------------------------------------) | Z B\ "There once was a note pure and easy, playin'|backstro@ | |i |e\ so free like a breath rippling by" |silver.bacs. | ||n ||l\ --The Who |indiana.edu | |||t |||d\ "Cows can't articulate the establishment - \ | ||||a ||||a\ the freedom utterer may..." | | |||||r|||||v\ --Teilhard De Chardin | | ||||||s|||||s\ (note the clever 'utter' pun) | | ||||||||||||| \ | | Running Amigados on a 1 meg, two drive Amiga 1000 | | somewhere near Steve Creps with his Ultrix 1.0.1 on a Vax | (---------------------------------------------------------------------)