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Re:Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running C... by masswerk on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:36PM (#33929235)
I think, the C65 is another overrated story. It wouldn't have hit the market before 1992, which was then i486/25MHz territory, the same year that Windows 3.1 and Photoshop 2.5 were introduced.

(On the other side of the spectrum, it also the year that the cheap famiclone home computers came about, which totally failed to make an impression on US or western European markets, despite their capability to run NES games out of the box. Well, there were probably legal issues involved, as well, but there wasn't even an interested gray market for them.)

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Re:Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running C... by einr on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:22AM (#33933332)
Well yes, I'm not arguing that it would have been a commercial success (nor did Commodore think so, apparently), just that it looked like it would have been a fantastic computer in and of itself and a worthy swansong for the Commodore 8-bit line.
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