There are lots of things that contributed, but the xor patent stopped them being able to import any products into the US. Commodore UK managed to survive for a year after the bankruptcy. Sony would have steam rollered commodore too, but I was just pointing out what did kill commodore. You implied that it was fixing hardware problems in software that killed commodore, which every succesful company does (Intel and AMD software mitigations for Spectre for example). With such an anti commodore bias, I'm not sure why you're here. On 15/03/2022 21:18, Francesco Messineo wrote: > I don't agree. No innovation killed Commodore and MOS. > The 16 bit variant of the 6502 was developed outside MOS. > All successful engineers that made C64 had left by the start of 1984, > Jack Tramiel (after PET, VIC-20 anc C64 success) was > forced to leave by 1984. > If it wasn't for the acquisition of the project Amiga, it would never > make in the '90s.Received on 2022-03-16 13:00:07
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