Posted By
Litwr
on 2021-01-08
04:21:14
|  Re: C264 Series Market Failure in Retrospect
@MMS Jack wanted the Amiga without its team?! What a crazy world!
IMHO if someone wants to milk the cow he must graze it. But they rather used their cows as meat. Commodore could finish the development of the promising Commodore LCD and then just drop it. They also dropped almost finished the C65. They spent resources for the development of the Commodore PC compatibles... No, it is definitely not just milking.
IMHO the regulators wanted Commodore for three things:
1) stop too advancing technologies from the rapid development (the 6502, Amiga);
2) do not bother other American computer companies (Texas Instruments was an exception);
3) prevent European computer companies from rapid development of their technologies.
@MMS the C116 was generally better than the ZX Spectrum. It had much better graphics, Basic and peripherals. It could be expanded to 64 KB quite naturally when the ZX was limited to 48 KB.
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