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Originally Posted by khph_re
It isn't split by use, a lot of those PC machines will be for business proposes.
My personal view is, if the A500 had been released in 1985, and not the A1000, the Amiga would have gained a bigger market share over those two important years, and if a decent chipset upgrade in 1990/1991, it might still be here today - though running on standard parts. I'd have given 8bit owners a rebate to upgrade to amiga.
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I talked about this in the other thread but I don't think so.
I think an A500 with ECS released in say 1986, which would have been doable I think, would have made a world of difference.
Without either a text mode like the IBM AT or non-interlaced higher resolution graphics modes like the Mac had I don't see how the Amiga could have broken out of being a niche.
It is baffling that it took Commodore so long to release ECS and the Amiga 500.