I remember my Commodore 64 days where you turned on the C64 and it booted right into BASIC because it loaded BASIC from a ROM, or it loaded software from a cart

I remember my Commodore 64 days where you turned on the C64 and it booted right into BASIC because it loaded BASIC from a ROM, or it loaded software from a cartridge. The 1541 floppy drive was extra, or the tape or modem etc. The thing I liked most about the C64 was booting into BASIC as soon as you turned it on. If Linux becomes the Firmware or installed on Firmware on an EEPROM or whatever, it can boot into a LiveCD Distro of Linux from an EEPROM faster than from a hard drive or USB drive or DVD whatever. I have to say some computers are getting rid of DVD/CD/BluRay drives and booting from USB Drives, which makes download a Linux Live CD/DVD and test it out, now it can just boot from BIOS with the bare minimum LiveCD distro, and allow you to have tools to work on hard drives and fix them etc. If I ran Commodore, and brought it back from the dead, I'd make Intel/AMD PCs, and I'd also make Commodore Bridge Cards that run a 68M/PPC Amiga on a PCIe/PCI card that can run in the host OS as a Window or Full Screen and can make virtual hard drives and floppies out of files, etc. Maybe a C64/C128/C65 on a card with ports from the Commodore series to hook up real 1541 drives etc. The Commodore Colt PCs will have a VIC-20 series that is low end, and a Mad Max series that is high end and built for video games and SteamOS or run Windows. They will come with Debian Linux but can be reformatted for Windows or SteamOS and make a deal with Steam to run C64 games in emulators the same way Sega Genesis games are run in emulators. I'd also try to make ARM-based PCs running Linux for under $100 based loosely on the Raspberry PI but assembled. Contribute to the Raspian or whatever it uses with an emulator app for 8-bit Commodores and they can buy ROMs from a store in the emulators to download and run, after getting permission from the software companies if they still exist to license them and pay 10% or whatever the fee is to the customer.