[Coco] more 1 bit madness

[Daniel Campos]

It's a shame that the MSX machines never arrived in the U.S. with force. 
It would be interesting to see how Commodore would fare with several 
Japanese heavy industrial manufacturers (such as Sony, Panasonic, Sanyo 
and others) doing MSX to sell in the U.S..
In Brazil, MSX have decimated any other 8-bit platform after he arrived 
in 1985-1986.

Daniel

Em 22/01/2014 02:55, Bill Loguidice escreveu:
> The fact remains no one could have matched Commodore on the low end of the
> market, and those that tried got into severe financial trouble (TI for
> one). Commodore controlled most of their own supply chain, so they could
> always outprice/outperform the competition on the most key components (and
> it helped immensely that the base spec for the C-64 was always 64K
> RAM--other computers varied from 8K - 48K for the most part up until the
> mid-80s, when they too started to standardize on 64K). Atari's 8-bit
> computers were world beaters upon their release in 1979, but they couldn't
> get the price down until after the C-64 was already in control of the
> market (and needing new models to do it). In retrospect, Tandy did what
> they had to to remain competitive and maintain their niche in the low end
> market, which is one reason it was able to last longer than most other
> 8-bit computers. The processor was an inspired choice, but it is a shame it
> was paired with the relatively limited graphics and sound, among other
> concessions to cost.
>
> -Bill
>