The music industry at large has never known its ass from its elbow, man. /../
A sufficient computer audio standard shouldn't be a standard at all, basically. There should be some basic standard capabilities,
Lets put it this way, any music you could access by listening to radio or buying records. There were even special shops for those weird "imported records" for people that wasn't satisfied with the industry marketed and spoon fed stuff. It took until the 90s before they presented synthesizer music that was good. Internet = many ribbons of red tape and capacity measured in kbit/s ..
When I think audio standard, I think more in terms of S/P-dif with at least 96 ksp/s 20-bit. Otoh, via USB one can connect any audio stuff one can think of. But USB is in my opinion half-duplex singled ended over complicated piece-of-crap.
The nice thing is that nowadays it's economically possible to bring one's one hardware to do more or less anything one can imagine. I had some ideas along pick-and-place and analog hardware that would make chips not manufactured possible and avoid the whole ASIC deal.
As for the 6502, it certainly lacks many features and is slow. But it was delivered 7 times cheaper than 6800 and changed the market. Delivered by ûbergeek
Peddle and hand drawings
Seems also that both the VIC-II and SID were created with the mantra "everything good that is on the market into our chip", and it succeeded.
Dunnu why Amiga fans are CPU focused. Perhaps it's because the instruction set stays but the peripherals vary?
@hairy, Silicon is cheap these days..
