Timeline for Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in personal computers in the 21st century?
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| Oct 7, 2023 at 18:32 | history | edited | John Dallman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Improve answer.
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| Sep 27, 2023 at 15:59 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | Bingo. Basic capitalism wins every time. If there's no demand for your product, it will necessarily be supplanted by products that consumers do want (or are willing to pay for). | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 13:30 | comment | added | fdreger | @JohnDallman It feels like one of the long, fruitless discussions we held back in the days :) High regard for Macintoshes was mostly an American thing. In Europe - Amiga and Atari ST were seen as both less expensive and better for professional use. The killer applications were music and DTP for Atari ST (it had built-in MIDI and was the host to the original Digital Audio Workstation - Cubase) and video for Amiga (due to availability of inexpensive Genlock hardware). | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 21:36 | history | edited | John Dallman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Rephrased
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| Sep 26, 2023 at 21:35 | comment | added | John Dallman | @rob74: They had the hardware capabilities, but did they have the range and quality of software that the Macs did? See what you think of this edit. | |
| Sep 26, 2023 at 14:34 | comment | added | rob74 | Good answer, however I have to object to "home computers, plus the Macintosh". The "home computers" (I assume you mean the Amiga and Atari ST) were on the same level as the 68k Macs - ok, the Amiga was held back by only having "TV-compatible" video output (so its high-resolution mode was interlaced and flickering), and the Atari ST was derided as the "Jackintosh", but still, both of them were equally capable as the 68k Macs and also saw professional use. | |
| Sep 25, 2023 at 12:31 | vote | accept | Biff Iam | ||
| Sep 25, 2023 at 8:21 | history | edited | John Dallman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Missing word, add workstations.
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| Sep 25, 2023 at 6:36 | history | answered | John Dallman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |