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The "Classic Amiga Operating System" known as AmigaOS originally targeted the desktop computing market. It was built around tightly integrated hardware and software. The hardware was originally based on proprietary chips running the Motorola 68000 series of processors. The software was the AmigaOS - multimedia, multi-threaded and multi-tasking. This combination of hardware and software produced a very fast, powerful and easy to use computing platform. Over 5 million Amiga computers were sold.

The Amiga platform was readily adopted by the television, motion picture and video game development communities. This system was the enabler for the birth of Newtek's Video Toaster - the first real-time video editing system. AmigaOS was also the first commercially available operating system to implement pre-emptive multitasking.

Over the years the computing industry moved from proprietary hardware to pluggable components. Stability and security became critical concerns for all operating systems. Support for 3D and easy access to and through the Internet drove development. Amiga responded to these market changes by developing and/or licensing development for OS 3.1, 3.5 and 3.9.