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  The Real Inside Story of How Commodore Failed zfkirone@gmail.com - 2017-10-14 00:35 -0700
    Re: The Real Inside Story of How Commodore Failed Daniele Gratteri <gratteri@NOSPAMemail.it> - 2017-10-18 21:32 +0200

#49542 — The Real Inside Story of How Commodore Failed

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/10/12/2155230/the-real-inside-story-of-how-commodore-failed

bignamino: Un paio di ingegneri che erano in C= hanno scritto un libro sui perché e percome del fallimento e sul tubo c'è 'sta intervista/chiacchierata/promo di mezzora. È la prima volta che viene fatto direttamente da gente "in the know" :)


Al solito, la parte migliore sono i commenti; ne riporto un paio che ho trovato interessanti (la maggior parte degli altri sono discussioni sui meriti e demeriti delle varie piattaforme).

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 by Toad-san ( 64810 ) on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:25PM (#55362903)

"I developed a CW (Morse Code) send-and-receive training system for the US Army Special Forces Radio School in '84 using networked (!) C-64's and standard issue CW keys, a networked hard drive, and amber monitors. Worked wonderfully well, the Army got a hell of a deal (it was my first work as an independent programmer, a "proof of me" sort of thing). Commodore BASIC, 6502 assembly language, great stuff! The little C-64's held up just fine ... except for the sound chip :-( The constant barrage of CW tones (all one frequency, pretty much) would burn them out after a month or two and the school had to find a local guy to replace that particular chip on the motherboard. Other than that, no issues whatsoever, with the C-64's or the Canadian-made network card that plugged into them."

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 by SharpFang ( 651121 ) on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:09AM (#55361413)

"What about AMIX? SUN wanted to create cheap, Amiga-based workstations running UNIX. This could have borne a new line of architecture directly competing with PC in the office and standard computing, while bearing familiarity to home and multimedia computing of classic Amiga line. And to be completely honest, the PC architecture was horribly clunky at the time. Nobody really *liked* the PC - it was a work machine, and the only available work machine that was reasonably priced.

It was the sheer untamed greed of the Commodore CEO that killed the deal, because instead of tackling the ticket to a new, big market and doing everything in his power to make it work, he demanded SUN to pay such outrageous licensing fees the product, if ever created, could never compete with existing products price-wise, never mind the (outdated) specs."

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix
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mai sentito, AMIX ^_^;;;

Sempre nei commenti, varie indicazioni di filmati e libri e altro, che raccontano la vicenda (es. "The Deathbed Vigil"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaTjwo1ywcI )

CYA

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Il 14/10/2017 09:35, zfkirone@gmail.com ha scritto:

> mai sentito, AMIX ^_^;;;

Ci sono finito per caso oggi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR1puVQ6mF0

video del boot di AMIX su WinUAE, c'è tanto di tutorial per 
l'installazione nei passaggi precedenti :-)

Certo un A3000UX sarebbe il top per farcelo girare, oppure un A2000 con 
A2630 :-D

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