30.Jan.2000
Jorge Pino in ANF
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Heise: PC Manufacturers: New Concepts Wanted
"A basic rule of the technological society seems to win again: Innovative ideas and
products recieve high acceptance and earn big profits. Holding tight to traditional
concepts, on the other hand, leads directly to economical desaster. Not only the manufacturers
of the C64, which was leading the way in it's time, had to learn this, when Commodore had
to give up all hope for rescue in 1994. In the 90ies of the last millenium, when the Intel x86
based PC-architecture had made it's way for quite some time, users no longer wanted Commodore's
products without hard drive - attempts to gain a foothold again with the Amiga came too late."
Full article (German) at the title link.
(Translation: mb)
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