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While the Amiga was impressive in the 80's, they failed to continue on that path of technical innovation. The technical lead they provided simply vanished by ha

While the Amiga was impressive in the 80's, they failed to continue on that path of technical innovation. The technical lead they provided simply vanished by having everyone else move forwards just a little bit faster than they were. Thus the inevitable erosion of their space. By the mid 90's there was little compelling that gave the Amiga an advantage and thus they had their lunch eaten. I suspect if we were to project the Amiga forward to today it would have actually meant us being in a worse place than we are today. In the same way if we had of waited for Silicon Graphics to provide desktop 3D graphics, we would have been waiting for a LONG time and at a high price.

rbanffy 4y ago
> waited for Silicon Graphics to provide desktop 3D graphics OTOH, we wouldn't need to put up with Windows for so long ;-)
- lproven 4y ago
  Sir is aware that SGI made Windows NT workstations, right? They were lovely things, too. I wish I'd bought one when PIIIs were being flogged off. https://wiki.preterhuman.net/SGI_Visual_Workstation https://wiki.preterhuman.net/SGI_Visual_Workstation
tssva 4y ago
> While the Amiga was impressive in the 80's, they failed to continue on that path of technical innovation. The US market was the largest computer market at the time and the Amiga sales in the US were awful. This left Commodore financially incapable of continuing on the path of technical innovation. Even in the few countries where the Amiga could have been considered a success, UK, Germany and Italy, the vast majority of sales were for the low end and margin A500.
- actionfromafar 4y ago
  They trashed so many of the opportunities they had, too.