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A complete guide to the history of the Amiga computer and OS is available on-line.

Amiga Team in 2007

The following photo was taken at Dale Luck's wedding in June 2007.

This photo features most of the original Amiga design team, with:

• From left to right, front row:
  • Glenn Keller - HW: Paula chip
  • Dave Needle - HW: Agnus chip, system boards
• Back row:
  
  • Carl Sassenrath - SW: Exec kernel
  • Dale Luck - SW: Graphics (and here, groom)
  • Sam Dicker - SW: Sound
  • RJ Mical - SW: Intuition (GUI)
  • Bob Burns - SW: Printers & input devices
  • Hedley Davis - HW: "Representing" Commodore
• And some missing engineers:
  
  • Jay Miner - HW: Team leader, Agnus chip (deceased)
  • David Dean - HW: Denise chip
  • Bob Pariseau - SW: Team leader
  • Neil Katin - SW: Devices
  • Jim Mackraz - SW: Graphics, devices
  • Bart Whitebook - SW: Graphics

Ars Technica

Ars Technica also features a multi-part story of the Amiga:

1. Genesis;
2. The birth of Amiga;
3. First prototype;
4. Enter Commodore;
5. Postlaunch blues;
6. Stopping the bleeding;
7. Game On!;
8. The demo scene.

It also published an article about the fight between IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows, featuring praises for the Amiga.

In a Nutshell...

What is the Amiga all about in one picture...

... and in Details

The following images summarise the past and current state of the Amiga computers and of their operating systems. The first figure includes also the release years for each Amiga computer and the company who manufactured it. If no company name is given, it is the same company as the "main" company on the horizontal timeline.

This second image show the evolution link between releases of the Amiga OS. AmigaOS 4 the most recent release of the AmigaOS is mostly a descendant of AmigaOS v3.1.