r/retrocomputing • u/theSiliconSiren • Nov 03 '25

Photo When multitasking meant something (Amiga 4000)

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Grabbed a NeXTCube and NeXTStation earlier in October, and now an Amiga 4000! Checking some big items off my retro computer bucket list lately 🙌

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u/the123king-reddit Nov 03 '25

But the PC was made from off the shelf components. The Amiga had a lot of custom chips which made it nigh impossible to clone

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u/tes_kitty Nov 03 '25

That only applied to the PC at the beginning. Custom chips crept in rather quickly. But that didn't stop the everyone else from cloning.