Indeed so. I had fun with a series of what-if ideas last year: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/where_computing_went_wrong_feature_part_1/ https://www.t

Indeed so. I had fun with a series of what-if ideas last year: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/where_computing_went_wrong_feature_part_1/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/where_computing_went_... https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/29/where_computing_went_wrong_feature_part_2/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/29/where_computing_went_... https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/04/where_computing_went_wrong_feature_part_3/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/04/where_computing_went_... Commodore bought Amiga. What if Sun bought Commodore? Come up with some kind of early virtualisation to run AmigaOS stuff on SunOS/68k. Actually make and ship the Amiga Hombre, but with SPARC instead of PA-RISC. The other line of thought is where Commodore could have gone... It didn't realise that the C64 was such a cash cow, and wasted effort on the C16 and Plus 4. It only did the C128 with a Z80 because otherwise the C128 wouldn't have worked with the CP/<M cartridge. Can the whole C16 family, the C64C, C64SX, the C128. Instead, incrementally improve the C64 rather than leaving a decade, coming up with the C65 and then cancelling it. Incremental improvements that were on offer and affordable: * better BASIC * more RAM * faster CPU * 16-bit CPU * Stereo sound * More colours, higher resolutions Lots of fun what-ifs to be had with the 1980s and early 1990s industry giants, before x86 caught up and swept everything else away.