Commodore without Mehdi Ali

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The Amiga spirit is to get the best technology that you can get your hands on be it buying, or order your in-house chipfab, for a given price per unit factor.

As for Commodore (non)management. Putting focus in time on making a good base computing platform would likely helpt a lot, with emphasis ON TIME without clutter. Ofcourse with a sense of what will sell, and heavy R&D to beat competitors. Any project that used too many resources from the main focus should been closed down.
The base platform could then be sold in different configurations low- and highend. Extras or not extras. The A3000 with a PPC, PCI, accelerated 768x625 non-interlaced gfx for half the price would been something.

What x86-PC really suck at is handling large amount of data in a timely and synchronized way. Autoconfiguration is a mess. Efficient and straightforward processor is another factor. I really deplored the graphics and sound capabilities of that platform for a LONG time..

When people say the masses wanted PC's.. well the reason that it turned out that way is because the business people thought that only IBM could make good computers in 70s and 80s. So companies bought IBM because the management was lobbied to think it was good. And the result is obvious..
People that did't suffer from being weak to "feels safe" then, and compatibility-anxiousity today, are more free to make rational choices.

A lot of development is now taking place that would not happened with Commodore. Like FPGA boards to replace deteriorating originals. System software is replaced with AROS etc.. The main difference is a engineering/community driven development path rather than a management in suits one. The downside is lack of capital. Right now it seems the mobile market with ARM based "computers" are eating the old M$.

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Without Ali and all of the destructive turmoil and total lack of strategy he caused whatever thy did it would have been for the better.

I heard Ali came from the mining industry, any truth to that?

Any particular reason why Ali was even hired?

In the 1980's there were loads of people with money and influence but no computer clue. Not even a small one.

injunction by a federal court  over Cad Track for their use of their XOR cursor patent.

What computer used that patent?

Maybe they should be LARTed as gift from the Amiga community for screwing up Commodore even more

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Here is why hohn Sculley ever got hired:
"They exhausted all of the obvious high-tech candidates to be CEO… Ultimately, David Rockefeller, who was a shareholder in Apple, said let’s try a different industry and let’s go to the top head hunter in the United States who isn’t in high tech: Gerry Roche."

Maybe Irving Gould should be blamed for the commodore mess?

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Yeah, the 68020 was available in the mid 80s, they should have made an Amiga with it (12, 16, 20Mhz) around 88-90. :idea: I guess even the less attractive 68EC020 was out by then.

I think the price would make it fail.

Yeah, makes me think of that video on Youtube where good ol' Rob Hubbard talks about that his music for a game, back in the early to mid 80s, was only 1k long or so. Compared to the amount of RAM we have now. :roflmao:

What you lack in IQ you have to compensate with RAM and MHz hehe.

Guess any new platform with the philosophy to get the best hardware for a given price  has to focus on technically aware people and not the surrounding masses. Ferraris are not for everyone.

The last successes has been in ipod - music, iphone - mobility, ipad - mobile internet. Maybe this can hint on what's the next thing the market will love?

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So ultimatly Irving is to blame?