Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running CP/M?

Re:Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running C... by hakfoo on Friday December 09, 2022 @07:52PM (#33928534)

I'm guessing it could have been a risk-management strategy.

If the 680x0 product is a failure, they've saved the cost of designing a custom machine and stocking inventory.

If it's a wild success, they have a partner which can scale up on demand. I suspect even in the Amiga's mid-life, Commodore was shipping an order of magnitude more machines than Sun was.

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Re:Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running C... by icedchai on Saturday December 10, 2022 @11:14AM (#33933794)

I suppose it could've been a lower-cost alternative to the Sun 3/80 ("Sun 3x", their 68030 arch), launched in 1989?

Also, Sun had launched a 386 system (Sun 386i) a year or two before that, so they were already on Intel. I think if they wanted to go the lower cost "consumer" route, they could've found a random PC clone vendor to help them scale up faster than Commodore.

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