3 ms·

> IMHO the 8-bit Ataris were a lot more innovative than the Commodore 8-bitters (including the C64), despite being a couple years earlier to market. ... The 8-b

> IMHO the 8-bit Ataris were a lot more innovative than the Commodore 8-bitters (including the C64), despite being a couple years earlier to market. ... The 8-bit Ataris were the actual predecessor to the Commodore Amiga (not surprising, because the same people who designed the Atari later designed the Amiga). Indeed. While the closest thing to a true successor to the Commodore 64 and 128 (ignoring the unreleased "Commodore 65") in the "16-bit" era was the Atari ST, which like the C64 was optimized for low cost.

bluGill 7y ago
Alan Tramiel, CEO of Commodore in the C64 days was CEO of Atari at the time of the ST.
- danmaz74 7y ago
  I think it was Jack Tramiel? But the reference about him being the CEO in those two situations is interesting.
  - bluGill 7y ago
    You are probably right. My memory of the 1980s is not perfect.
    - danmaz74 7y ago
      I only remembered because I read a book about Commodore a couple of years ago. At the time I had a C64, but had no idea who Jack Tramiel was :)
    - rsfinn 7y ago
      You may be thinking of Alan Trammel, the shortstop for the Detroit Tigers whose best years were in the 1980s.
- timbit42 7y ago
  Some of the C64 engineers designed the Atari ST, for example, Shiraz Shivji ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_Shivji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_Shivji )