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by WalterBright
1940 days ago
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> I don't think it's fair to ding an early 80s platform for not caring about IBM compatibility. The IBM was the dominant platform, and there were plenty of 3rd party keyboards, drives, and monitors available. The keyboards, for example, had the same keys but wouldn't work with the Amiga. Running PC programs was not important, but being able to read/write the floppies in DOS format was very important. Amiga was clearly trying to create a proprietary platform in order to charge premium prices for keyboards, etc. I thought this was a big mistake. Whether that killed the Amiga or not, who knows, but as far as I was concerned it was a factor. It certainly drove me away from supporting it. |
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This is by no means a given, considering that Apple has succeeded fantastically by not only doing exactly this, but doing so in pursuit of margins Commodore-Amiga would have considered fatally aggressive.