From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: jsavard@ecn.ab.ca   
   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
   On Nov 20, 10:20apm, "Your Name"  wrote:   
   > "Brian Thorn"  wrote in message   
   > news:7lqeg5d826td8m4i5oq9v92rjtlc4qjnil@4ax.com...   
   > > Of course, it   
   > > also left Commodore on weak financial ground where they were never   
   > > able to take full advantage of the truly groundbreaking Amiga in the   
   > > second half of the 80s.   
   >   
   > Commodore's inept management never quite knew what to do with the Amiga ...   
   > one day it was a home games machine, the next it was a video editing   
   > station, the next it was a business computer, and then back to being a games   
   > computer. They kept changing their tiny minds until it was far too late.   
   > It's ironic that the logo often associated with the Amiga was a 3D graphic   
   > ball, because the management certainly dropped it.   
   But then how do you explain Jack Tramiel failing to make the Atari ST   
   a success?   
   Really, the failure of both the Amiga and the Atari ST, whatever the   
   failings of Commodore and Atari might have been, had a simple   
   explanation, consisting of two factors:   
   1) The IBM PC and its clones being the standard;   
   2) Apple's protection of its intellectual property related to the GUI   
   - which Microsoft *licensed* so it could make Windows.   
   So the Amiga and the ST had to be careful to avoid being too Mac-like,   
   thus limiting the usability of their GUI, but more importantly, PC   
   clones were cheap enough that, given the large amount of software for   
   them, other alternatives were left in the dust.   
   John Savard   
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