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Congrats to Microsoft for Windows 1. But I still think Amiga/AmigaOS was superior. However, when Microsoft released Windows 3, you could start to see where the

Congrats to Microsoft for Windows 1. But I still think Amiga/AmigaOS was superior. However, when Microsoft released Windows 3, you could start to see where the puck was going. So I skated toward the puck, like everyone else. Sorry Commodore. :(

dansalvato 2y ago
Let's be real, Commodore has no one to blame but themselves for squandering their 5-year lead in hardware and OS. They were carried hard by the passion of their engineers, but irredeemably greedy and soulless at the top. At Microsoft and Apple, engineers were the lifeblood from the very beginning. At Commodore, they were a spreadsheet column.
- skeeter2020 2y ago
  It's all relative; Commodore sounds like it was nirvana compared to Atari!
  - accrual 2y ago
    Kind of wild to imagine an alternate universe where Commodore and Atari were still big names in computing. Would have loved to see the Amiga continue to grow, it seemed so ahead of its time.
  - chuckadams 2y ago
    Commodore probably got more pleasant after Jack Tramiel left to go run Atari. Unfortunately it got left in the hands of Irving Gould, who treated the company as his personal piggy bank and looted it til there was nothing left.
- panick21_ 2y ago
  Imagine if Commodore had built ARM, or something like it it. A 16 register RISC in the 80s was basically an instant win. They would have been in the CPU lead for a couple of years. And they had the resources. I mean hell, Acron was a tiny company and they pulled of building an absolutely incredibly machine in the Archimedes. Its just what you dare to do. If they were as bold as the original Amiga team, with VSLI Technology 2nm CMOS in the late 80s they could have built an incredible machine. I think they held on to long trying to do their own semiconductors. Acron didn't have the bandwidth to really innovate on the graphics side of things, and because of their problems with OS, they never managed to get enough software on the platform. And they just didn't have the market either. Commodore on the other hand, actually had a pretty high quality OS with lots of software and users already.
gdedhitchhiker 2y ago
it was amazing how good that was. 8-bit guy has some great videos on it.
- jimt1234 2y ago
  I used to enjoy playing around with audio programs like Soundtracker/Protracker. Those programs were the first time I was blown away by what a computer could do.
  - pixelpoet 2y ago
    Demoscene power still steers the industry today (particularly at Nvidia)
icedchai 2y ago
I was an Amiga user from 1988 through 1994. AmigaOS was basically awful until 2.0 came out in 1990/1991. That was when they finally developed UI guidelines, got rid of the garish blue/orange yellow scheme, and made the platform much more stable. Sadly, it was too little, too late. You know what was also released in 1990? Windows 3.x.

dansalvato 2y ago

Let's be real, Commodore has no one to blame but themselves for squandering their 5-year lead in hardware and OS. They were carried hard by the passion of their engineers, but irredeemably greedy and soulless at the top. At Microsoft and Apple, engineers were the lifeblood from the very beginning. At Commodore, they were a spreadsheet column.

skeeter2020 2y ago
It's all relative; Commodore sounds like it was nirvana compared to Atari!
- accrual 2y ago
  Kind of wild to imagine an alternate universe where Commodore and Atari were still big names in computing. Would have loved to see the Amiga continue to grow, it seemed so ahead of its time.
- chuckadams 2y ago
  Commodore probably got more pleasant after Jack Tramiel left to go run Atari. Unfortunately it got left in the hands of Irving Gould, who treated the company as his personal piggy bank and looted it til there was nothing left.
panick21_ 2y ago
Imagine if Commodore had built ARM, or something like it it. A 16 register RISC in the 80s was basically an instant win. They would have been in the CPU lead for a couple of years. And they had the resources. I mean hell, Acron was a tiny company and they pulled of building an absolutely incredibly machine in the Archimedes. Its just what you dare to do. If they were as bold as the original Amiga team, with VSLI Technology 2nm CMOS in the late 80s they could have built an incredible machine. I think they held on to long trying to do their own semiconductors. Acron didn't have the bandwidth to really innovate on the graphics side of things, and because of their problems with OS, they never managed to get enough software on the platform. And they just didn't have the market either. Commodore on the other hand, actually had a pretty high quality OS with lots of software and users already.

gdedhitchhiker 2y ago

it was amazing how good that was. 8-bit guy has some great videos on it.

jimt1234 2y ago
I used to enjoy playing around with audio programs like Soundtracker/Protracker. Those programs were the first time I was blown away by what a computer could do.
- pixelpoet 2y ago
  Demoscene power still steers the industry today (particularly at Nvidia)

icedchai 2y ago

I was an Amiga user from 1988 through 1994. AmigaOS was basically awful until 2.0 came out in 1990/1991. That was when they finally developed UI guidelines, got rid of the garish blue/orange yellow scheme, and made the platform much more stable. Sadly, it was too little, too late. You know what was also released in 1990? Windows 3.x.