Posted By
TMR
on 2004-11-11
21:02:18
 |  Re: Commodore's market decisions in the 80s
The C16 wasn't really aimed at the Spectrum, the Speccy didn't have a major dominance outside the U.K. when the 264 series were being designed and, if the C16 was meant to compete, why give it 16K when the stock Speccy by 1984 was 48K?
i've always felt (i don't know if this is how it actually was and it's perhaps a little cynical of me) that the C16 was intended as a replacement for the VIC20 whilst the Plus/4 was to supercede the C64. And, if i am being cynical here, the reasoning behind the machines seems to be quite heavily based on financial issues; although the C64 was selling by the truckload it was expensive to produce due to the custom chips, the Plus/4 was much cheaper as a piece of hardware because most of the jobs farmed out to multiple ICs on the C64 board were handled by TED in the 264 series.
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