SJS wrote:
begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:59:15PM -0700:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Success is often based more upon marketing than technical factors.
Which is why windows got so entrenched and Amiga fell thru the cracks.
It didn't help that Tramiel had a history of screwing over the dealers,
and that C= had internal politics nasty enough to make academic politics
look like good-natured squabbling.
As much as the Amiga folks like to brag, it never had a good
price/features point.
It was way too expensive for someone to buy for their kid.
It way too close to a PC price point to be attractive to business.
It didn't have as good a set of monochrome graphics as a Mac.
It never had enough oomph to displace a workstation like a Sun 2 or Sun
3/60.
It did have a nice multimedia graphics point, though, due to the genlock
feature. And, quelle surprise, that's where it found a nice market. Go
figure.
-a
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