>> By comparison, Commodore's response time can almost be measured in
>> decades.
>> Commodore responded to Apple's announcement of the Mac II by shipping a
>> system
>> with almost exactly the same capbilities five years later. And Commodore
>Apple responded to Commodore's release of the Amiga 1000 (with colour
>graphics and a multitasking OS) with their first colour machine 2 years
>later.
>Apple *has yet* to respond to Commodore's release of a true pre-emptive
>multitasking OS and built in hardware graphics accelerators (going on 7
>years now), or the Amiga's price-performance ratio (though the cheap ass
>Performas are getting closer)
Just like IBM, too...slow!!
>> responded to the standardization of high-density floppy drives in the
>> computer
>> industry by finally adopting them on Amiga systems over four years after
>> IBM,
>> Apple, and every other company in the industry made HD floppies standard on
>Never mind that, for the years before that, the Amiga had 880K drives when
>everybody else had 800K (Mac) and 720K (IBM, Atari ST).
Never mind that...Commodore releases theirs, and it's 1.76 Meg, not 1.44!!
IBM/MegaSlow-DOS, and Apple/Mac fucked up again!!
>> notebook Amigas to penetrate the exploding notebook PC market. Commodore
>> can
>> probably be expected to ship these products on the fourth or fifth
>> anniversary
>> of the availability of these products by other companies.
>You want quick development times? How about CDTV? The CD-I people had
>been yakking about CD-I for some years before it came out, and Commodore
>(in a rare fit of creativity) threw together the CDTV and released it
>*before* CD-I (regardless of how Philips *lies* about "another first" in
>the CD-I commercials). Apple *still* has not developed a self contained
>multimedia CD-ROM presentation device like CDTV.
Actually, Phillips did most of the development on the CD-TV!
-Doc
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