Times changed though, too, and Tramiel couldn't replicate his success w the C64 at Atari Corp, despite bringing the same philosophy (and many key engineers) ove

Times changed though, too, and Tramiel couldn't replicate his success w the C64 at Atari Corp, despite bringing the same philosophy (and many key engineers) over there. By the late 80s the "microcomputer" hobby/games market was dead and systems like the ST and Amiga (or Acorn Archimedes, etc.) were anachronisms. You had to be a PC-compat or a Mac or a Unix workstation or you were dead. Commodore and Atari both tried to push themselves into that workstation tier by selling cheaper 68030 machines than Sun, etc, but without success.