Editing Amiga (section)

=== Commodore ===
By the end of the [[video game crash of 1983]], Warner was desperate to sell Atari. In January 1984, [[Jack Tramiel]] resigned from Commodore, taking some Commodore employees to his new company, Tramel Technology. This included a number of the senior technical staff, where they began development of a new 68000-based machine. In June, Tramiel arranged a no-cash deal to take over Atari, reforming Tramel Technology as [[Atari Corporation]].

Commodore was left without a workable path to creating a next-generation home computer, and it offered to fund Amiga development. The two companies were initially arranging a {{US$|long=no|4 million}} license agreement before Commodore offered {{US$|long=no|24 million}} to purchase Amiga outright.<ref name=p3p3>{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/08/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-3/3/ |title=A history of the Amiga, part 3: The first prototype |website=Ars Technica |first=Jeremy |last=Reimer |date=21 August 2007 |access-date=14 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704102904/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/08/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-3/3/ |archive-date=4 July 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

By late 1984, the prototype breadboard chipset had successfully been turned into integrated circuits, and the system hardware was being readied for production. At this time, the [[operating system]] was not ready, and led to a deal to port [[TRIPOS]]. TRIPOS was a [[Computer multitasking|multitasking]] system written in [[BCPL]] during the 1970s for the [[PDP-11]] [[minicomputer]]. This early version was known as AmigaDOS and the GUI as Workbench. The BCPL parts were later rewritten in the [[C (programming language)|C]] language, and the entire system became AmigaOS.

The system was enclosed in a [[pizza-box form factor]] case. A late change was the introduction of vertical supports on either side of the case to provide a "garage" under the main section of the system where the keyboard could be stored.<ref name=p5p1>{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/amiga-history-4-commodore-years/2/ |title=A history of the Amiga, part 4: Enter Commodore |website=Ars Technica |first=Jeremy |last=Reimer |date=10 December 2007 |access-date=14 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704100028/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/amiga-history-4-commodore-years/2/ |archive-date=4 July 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>