Re:1K colours on CGA: How it's done
by jerf on Friday April 10, 2015 @03:01PM
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This is why, despite growing up a Commodore kid, I've never really sat and wondered about the "could have been" very much like some people have... even if Commodore had survived they would have been in ever-growing trouble with their architecture and there's no reason to believe that whatever they put out in, say, 1995 would be any particularly better or worse than what we really got, because it would pretty much be a full rewrite anyhow.
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Re:1K colours on CGA: How it's done
by frozenport on Friday April 10, 2015 @03:07PM
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Might have fared exactly like Apple in the 90s? Trying to push a 80s architecture and system in 1999?
And part of my point is precisely that in the subsequent rewrite, the OS-level specialness of Apple is now essentially gone. (Apple itself of course has a distinct identity.) While I do not necessarily believe where we are today is completely inevitable, I do also tend to think that it's an awfully strong local optima. (People often come up with radical ideas for alternate approaches but IMHO have a hard time proving alternate approaches are generally better, as opposed to better for a very particular use case.)