Posted by TonyP on 09/14/05 11:58

doc wrote:

> why didn't they move on up?

The Amiga was a revolutionary computer for it's time with extremely poor
marketing and overall company management. It was owned by Commodore
Business Machines, who marketed the insanely popular C64, C128, Vic 20,
etc.. The Amiga group were forward thinkers. The Amiga was the first
true pre-emptive multitasking 32bit computer of it's day. It had the
ability to display over 4000 colors when the IBM's had eitehr monochrome
or 16. It had built in speech, 8 channel stereo and output to NTSC. It's
floppies formatted out to 880k while, the same disk for a PC only 720k.
It had a GUI before PC, used SCSI (faster and easier to expand instead
of IDE), and was able to emulate both Mac and PC on the same computer.
Amazing. And, it did this all with only 512k of ram! Mind you, this was
back in 1989! Then, the Video Toaster came on the scene! It
revolutionized DTV. No only did it revolutionize it, it created it!

But the greed of the corporate heads with their off shore Bahama
structure bled the company and it's assests dry. It went from a billion
dollar a year company to nothing in a few years.
We all know how you by the Playstation and XBox, well, Commodore had the
CD32 (?) which was basically the same thing, eons before Sony and M$. A
product that was ahead of it's time.

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