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by cmrdporcupine
2329 days ago
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I believe the consensus is now that the Tramiels and Shivji were already hard at work on what became the ST ("Rock bottom price" project) before Tramiel discovered the Amiga IP and went after Commodore over it. I don't think the ST was an attempt to catch up with the Amiga so much as the lawsuit with Commodore was an attempt to slow Commodore down. I'm sure they would maybe have tried to bolt Amiga tech later into the ST project if they could have, though. (Makes you wonder if the choice to exclude a Blitter from the original ST has something to do with that...) As it was the ST beat the Amiga to market by almost a year, and had an initial sales lead until Commodore introduced the A500 and dropped the price a bunch. I know the A1000 wasn't even in the running for me when I bought my ST, it was ridiculously overpriced. |
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