1985: the Amiga 1000 ships and Steve Jobs leaves Apple to found NeXT — two paths that meet a decade later as OS X. My first computer was an Amiga; I went deep on it doing Army reconnaissance in Europe, where it was a phenomenon. The Amiga multitasked before the Mac and out-rendered every PC. It still lost. Riding a superior platform into irrelevance teaches what no CS class does: merit and survival are separate arguments.

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