Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:54:57 +0000
Message-ID: <522b568d-aeec-dfb7-7063-68be1c603362@null.net>
On 09/01/2019 10:13, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>
> Cheap alone doesn't cut it, you also have to be 'good enough'. Meaning 
> not perfect, but the problems still present tolerable for what you get 
> in return.
>
Right. Commodore sold C64's that caught fire, but it was good enough 
because they had your money and it was just a box under a xmas tree for 
the first few weeks.

> Windows 3.x was in that 'good enough' category as well, at least for 
> people who came from DOS. If you already knew AmigaOS or MacOS, you 
> usually thought differently. :)

I used Windows before AmigaOS & I kept using both for years.

It wasn't until Amiga 3.1 and Windows 3.11 that I thought either were 
good enough. Both required a lot of tweaking and extra software 
installed. I remember lots of fun with WinG and Win32S sample programs, 
but not too much in the way of real software that uses it.

Windows 95 was the first time there was a good out of the box experience.
Received on 2019-01-09 15:03:59

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