Re: HOW THE APPLE II COULD RETURN...

[neiderma@er7.rutgers.edu (Kid)]

>Dunno. If you did then the cheaper Amigas should have cleaned up, but
>they didn't. Commodore tried this sort of strategy and it did okay but
>was not enough.

Almost there.  Commodore International, a Cayman Islands company,
folded because of gross personal spending habits on the part of the
high executives (the president has several jets etc) and intentional
mismanagement.  I think it went something along the lines of "drive
C= into the ground and we can make golden parachutes for ourselves
and then go run some other company".  What kept C= alive was the
users, and even they could only pump so much $ into the company.
I knew an Amiga developers who was _very_ distraught over not having
the materials and environment to make a kick-butt machine (ie the
4000 with a super AGA chipset andsocket-ready for a 68060) while
the corporates sunned themselves in the Caymans.

C= had the A500, A1000, A2000, A3000, A4000, CDTV, and CD^32, and
several variants.  Not to mention a solid base of cheap C64's for
cash cowing.  Just intentionally bad management put C= under. I
am not sure (really not sure), but I thought there was some kind of
legal movement or something against the president of Commodore or
something.  Really not sure about that part, though.

If the Amiga was marketed well in the US, it could have overrun the
high-end computer world (even the Mac) because of the excellent
graphics, sound, multitasking, and video production.   Of course,
if the IIGS was marketed well in the US (or anywhere else),
it would have overrun the low-end computer world....