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Originally Posted by Photon
Because they, like all future computers, were breaking with the old. It took a decade for the PC to leave the old.
Even if the Amiga had text mode, you wouldn't pay $2000 extra to get the same.
And as I said, buying a $2000 computer for 1 app wasn't invented yet.
This is why (since theories are a dime a dozen) as I wrote a theory must explain why early adopters didn't buy computer X.
Sure it is. Plenty of old text mode computers were 80x25 and those who used them ran word processors just fine.
The document will be much longer than 25 lines anyway, so the number of lines don't matter.
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Except, the Amiga didn’t have a text mode. So, yes, the 200 vertical resolution nattered.
Out of curiosity, when did you first get an Amiga?
Your posts really strike me as someone who never used an Amiga during this period. It was a $1,200 computer (in 1985 dollars) without a monitor. It wasn’t marketed as a toy but as a better, less expensive alternative to the Mac and PC. But you couldn’t use it realistically to do the things people wanted to do on a Mac or PC. Anyone suggesting otherwise almost certainly never owned an Amiga in 1985.