Was anyone else disappointed with the A1200?

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Thomas Richter

That is note really a good comparison. Actually, for memory, that instructions are twice as wide as on the C64, and data is often even four times as wide as on the C64, thus a 256K Amiga is pretty much "the same" as the 64K of the C64.

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Except the Mac

The Mac absolutely died. The brand lived on, not the platform. First the 680x0 line was dumped for PPC. Then the OS was dumped for X. Then the PPC was dumped for intel. Then the intel was dumped for Arm...

Saying the Mac lived on is like saying Trigger's (the street cleaner character from the UK comedy Only Fools and Horses) same broom lived on for 30 years having only had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Karlos

The brand lived on

Exactly. None of the others did.

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by Thorham

Exactly. None of the others did.

ARM holdings did ok...

[Thomas Richter]

Originally Posted by Karlos

The Mac absolutely died. The brand lived on, not the platform. First the 680x0 line was dumped for PPC. Then the OS was dumped for X. Then the PPC was dumped for intel. Then the intel was dumped for Arm...

...and when PPC arrived, you could still use your 68K programs for a while, etc... The ecosystem survived mostly unharmed, and it was and still is an active market for which you could buy software and hardware. For the 68K Amiga, well... there is a little bit of a retro market, but nothing as large as the Mac or Apple market. Don't judge from the particular specifications of the hardware, judge from the market perspective.

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Karlos

ARM holdings did ok...

I thought they only did CPUs