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The Amiga was released just as the personal computing world

standardized on IBM-PC clones. This prevented it from gaining serious

market share, despite the fact that the first Amigas had a substantial

technological lead on the IBM XTs of the time. Instead, it acquired a

small but zealous population of enthusiastic hackers who dreamt of one

day unseating the clones (see [489]Amiga Persecution Complex). The

traits of this culture are both spoofed and illuminated in [490]The

BLAZE Humor Viewer. The strength of the Amiga platform seeded a small

industry of companies building software and hardware for the platform,

especially in graphics and video applications (see [491]video

toaster).

Due to spectacular mismanagement, Commodore did hardly any R&D,

allowing the competition to close Amiga's technological lead. After

Commodore went bankrupt in 1994 the technology passed through several

hands, none of whom did much with it. However, the Amiga is still

being produced in Europe under license and has a substantial number of

fans, which will probably extend the platform's life considerably.

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