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From: payton@paytonnospambyrd.com
"Macintosh Dragon" wrote in message news:screw-E
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> In article <298Ti.2916$_64.2467@trnddc02>,
> "Sam Gillett" wrote:
>
> Keep in mind that the personal computer market was much more
>> fragmented in the 1980's than it is today. Two major segments were the home
>> computer segment, which was dominated by Commodore and Atari, and the
>> business computer segment where there were several CP/M machines which were
>> quickly displaced by the IBM PC/XT and the various clones. And then there
>> was Apple whic sort of stradled the line between the home and small business
>> market.
>
> True, but honestly...wasn't it great! I LOVED all the different types
> of computers back then. I think that it's stupid to give a crap about
> the "winner" or "loser" of the 80's home computers. Man, I would love
> to see a return to the times of multiple formats, multiple machines,
> multiple operating systems. To me, that was the best time in the home
> computing era, seeing what the newest weird system was coming out with.
> Truly, the present with the Windows/Macintosh/Linux line up is pretty
> damn boring in comparison....second verse same as the first...
>
>
> Douglas
>
> :)
There is diversity, and then there is market confusion. In the 80's, the home
computer market was definitely confused until the C64 basically took the
entire market by the throat and bent it to its will. By the end of the 80's
it was clear the only
three viable platforms were MS-DOS/Windows, Macintosh and Amiga. It's a damn
shame that LBM and Irving Gould were in charge of C= instead of Jack Tramiel
by the time the Amiga came around.
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