Bill Gates head on a stick!

[Iggy]

...MS killed Commodore & Gateway to get rid of the Amiga you love.

I hate Microsoft as much as many of you, but you're wrong.
Bad business practices killed those companies.

Its a free market, and the market didn't choose commodore or Gateway over other PC manufacturers.

I don't blame Bill for killing the small company I worked for, even though our four to five user multitasking 68K boxes could run circles around the XT and AT systems of that period.

Get it straight, lack of (good) software is what kills alternative platforms.

[Iggy]

@Iggy @EvilGuy

I don't think you guys have as much insider information on that topic as I do. I used to work for Commodore. Maybe I can show you one day. In the meantime enjoy these minor links.

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/ms_tuncom/major/mtc-00028565b.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft

http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html

Actually, I think I might.
I'm 52.
My company made 68K based PC when the Amiga was still current.

I used to have IBM engineers stop by and make favorably comparison (of our systems) to IBM 360 (since our base system supported four users out of the box0.

Then, one day, one of these guys handed my an in house copy of windows 3.0 (anyone that had access to that product will remember that the colors were locked into a rather hideous color combination).

However, when I put customers on machines with this installed they could use it relatively intuitively.

Game over.

And, we also never recovered from the rapid development of PC specific software titles.
Yeah, maybe some were not that good, but there were a lot of them.

So please don't lecture me about what went wrong.

My first computer was from SWTPC.

Face it, our hardware was better, we lost to better marketing and savy business acumen.
Its that simple.

And besides, we all know Commodore had no idea how to market the Amiga.

[Iggy]

BTW - What happened to the GD edit button?
I can't even correct my typing errors?

Edit - OK, got that back, but weird as I was logged in.

I don't want to be confrontational, but I'm still very bitter about seeing superior solutions get outmaneuvered by crappy hardware and software.