High valeru, and welcome on board.
I'm afraid that when Commodore/escom etc went down, there was no one company to pick up the baton and give direction. It's a real shame, The acorn risk crowd have a smaller community than us, so do atari, but they have not suffered the fragmentation that we have.
We would probably have more software/cheaper hardware if everyone could have compremised on a single direction. This is all ancient history now though, but caused a lot of controvesy on here in the past!
