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> Commodore was totally unable to pull another Jay Miner with its next chip set. Indeed, bearing in mind that Jay Miner had designed his previous chips for Ata
by scholia 11y ago
> Commodore was totally unable to pull another Jay Miner with its next chip set.
Indeed, bearing in mind that Jay Miner had designed his previous chips for Atari 8-bit computers, when he worked there. And that Commodore actually bought the Amiga from Amiga Corp ;-)
- cmrdporcupine 11y agoJust imagine the alternate history where Atari hadn't disappeared up its own ass in the early 80s and all the amazing tech they were sitting on could have shipped. Terrible internal management, amazing engineering. They had dual CPU BSD workstation systems in development, the dual x86/6502 1450XL, the 128 oscillator AMY sound chip, Jay Miner/Amiga on contract for something new... Then they went tits up, Commodore had internal fighting with Tramiel, Tramiel and sons (and some ex-Commodore engineers) took the Atari name and some of its assets, and Commodore mismanaged the Amiga (and the remaining 8-bit stuff) for the next 5 years. If all that engineering talent could have just gotten their shit together instead of fighting over the table scraps... the PC industry would have been far more interesting.