The business I was in (late 80's early 90's) supported/developed for PC, Unix and Mac. I got to work with and support many types of systems. Still Amiga out shown them all in many ways. However I feared the end around 1991 when I saw CBM spending lots of cash on PC-Colt models/deveopment that couldn't even run basic MSDOS with out crashing. At the same time they seemed to skimping on Amiga development letting 3rd party vendors pick up the slack on new products. Their brand was being hurt by poor clones and their star was being treated like a step child. We know how that turned out.
Over 2 years time I got my fill of Colts. One day I set up a line of system in our back office of 6 different PC systems. Two different Colts and 4 other clones. IBM, Amstrad (I think), AST, and a Kaypro. We had a customer that was using Colts and was claiming they might have a virus. I cleared all systems, removed hard drives (if they had them) and then booted each of the 6 with new clean copies of DOS. (both 3.1 and 3.3). I ran a series of boots and basic DOS functions tests to prove to management that the Colts were crashing while the others worked fine. I Did all kinds of variation.... swapped the floppies and disk drives around, swapped/replaced memory, ran system stress tests. Colts failed, other clones worked. In the end that company dumped their small fleet of Colts (12-15) and went with another vendor. How many times was this type story repeated across the county?
What if CBM had made a better clone? What if they had forgotten about the clone altogether and properly developed Amiga? When Colt sales tanked at the time it seemed that CBM execs couldn't empty the piggy banks and head for the exits fast enough.
Well that's the way it seemed to me at the time anyway. And honestly I'm not sorry for helping killing those sorry PC-Colts.
BTW, just so it doesn't seem I'm beating up on just Colt's.... fast forward a couple years and I had to do an almost identical set of test to show that AT&T clones couldn't run anything above DOS 3.1 (or was it 3.0?) without taking a dump. And when's the last time you saw and AT&T clone? Guess that's my fault too.

Plaz