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by blakeyrat 3587 days ago
The article doesn't dwell on it much but those "primitive" 8-bit Commodore 64 machines had the legendary SID sound chip inside of them that put most early PC-compatible sound chips to shame. (As did the Amiga and Macintosh, the Macintosh famously shipping with a digitized speech synthesizer back in 1984.)

Of course for most of that era, the PC was "controlled" by IBM who had zero respect for video games.