Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: 12 Feb 2025 06:28:03 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <655acbf6-05e5-69ff-8a44-9f7075aafa2e@example.net> <9RycneStTKjZETf6nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@earthlink.com> <73idnXWOHfZXYTb6nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net l9xuL0IsfGWUbz7Ffr+byAAEHugeGCk9/hf1xdcNv9owiS/MPK Cancel-Lock: sha1:QnAXTIQViGmPDcs8JaD612DuxLQ= sha256:SzBqPa+Gg+j8/0TcLN+BCYPgZQ8KVN2R2THAbnLxh4g= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:65444 comp.os.linux.advocacy:685714 On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:50:21 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote: > I too lament a relative lack of 68K boxes. It was a fine chip. It is > said IBM considered it, but the prices - purchase + design - were > more than it wanted for a product they didn't know would be > successful. Not sure Motorola could have produced enough of them at > the time either. They had used the 8085 in the System/23 so it was somewhat familiar territory. iirc the 68008 wasn't quite ready for prime time either and all those dirt cheap 8bit peripherals were so enticing. > Always wanted a PET ... but didn't have the $$$ back when they were > popular. The C64 was "better" in a number of ways, but it didn't come > in the stylish all-in-one case I saw one of the 4000 series sitting on a trash can a few years ago but sometimes I have brief flashes of sanity. The PET was way behind the TRS-80 in sales but the C64 was a real winner. Commodore is another one of the sad stories of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.