General 68000 hardware inquiry

[psxphill]

I thought the beauty of the corporate model -- I presume C= was a corporation -- was that the stockholders hold regular elections and can vote out anyone who does a bad job. If Gould and Ali did such a bad job, why not vote them out "next election" and hire more popular leadership?

Gould was the major stock holder & he liked Ali, because he said all the right things to him.
 
Jack Tramiel wasn't the nicest person, but he had a vision and managed to screw people to achieve it. I don't think that Gould ever appreciated how much he needed Jack, money from the c64 was rolling in and he could afford to pay for some yes men to massage his ego.
 
The problem with stock holders is that all they have brought to the table is money, they don't necessarily know if someone is doing a good job or not.

[psxphill]

Also, the downfall went fast and not all of it is to blame on Gould/Ali. In 1992 things might have looked bleak but Amiga was still the leading games/home computer (in Europe at least). Buying a PC was not only seen as weird but rather downright irresponsible - they were too expensive. Then in 1993, Doom came along and changed everything.

That was their lack of vision. They thought that they could keep repeating the same success without the right r&d.
 
It all started going wrong after the a500 was released, before it even became successful. That was when they should have been designing the A1200 & it should have had chunky video modes.
 
AAA was never going to make them the same kind of money.
 
With the correct management they had the people to build it. In the end it was Sony that designed the next great games machine hardware.