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I'm guessing it could have been a risk-management strategy. If the 680x0 product is a failure, they've saved the cost of designing a custom machine and stockin
by hakfoo 4y ago
I'm guessing it could have been a risk-management strategy.
If the 680x0 product is a failure, they've saved the cost of designing a custom machine and stocking inventory.
If it's a wild success, they have a partner which can scale up on demand. I suspect even in the Amiga's mid-life, Commodore was shipping an order of magnitude more machines than Sun was.
- icedchai 4y agoI suppose it could've been a lower-cost alternative to the Sun 3/80 ("Sun 3x", their 68030 arch), launched in 1989? Also, Sun had launched a 386 system (Sun 386i) a year or two before that, so they were already on Intel. I think if they wanted to go the lower cost "consumer" route, they could've found a random PC clone vendor to help them scale up faster than Commodore.