It's not really comparable. There's no driver or abstraction (or memory protection, or anything) on the Amiga - you're bit-banging against the hardware directly.
There is a driver, has been for the past 25 years: AHI. It then has specialised drivers for different types of hardware, Paula included. Sotware targeting AHI has audio hardware abstracted away. The user picks the output driver, which could be one of the Amiga audio cards which AHI supports or the Paula chip. For all intents and purposes, AHI treats the Paula chip as yet another audio card.
Ok thanks, I suppose that makes sense. I guess the Amiga didn't have a lot of room for that. Though i've heard it was one of the best multimedia computers of it's time. I've always thought digital audio was cool. Especially stuff from back then with limits hardware had.
