Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 31st Dec 2008 11:11 UTC
At this year's 25th Chaos Communication Congress, an annual four day conference with the slogan "Nothing to hide" reveals everything about the Commodore 64, in 64 minutes. Across 256 slides. The video is now available to download via BitTorrent or FTP. The Commodore 64 is the greatest selling computer of all time; learn how it got there with its quirky hardware, loved by hackers worldwide.
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In a way, Commodore DID kill the Amiga. How? Easy - they sold off their manufacturing facilities. At that point, the Amiga was reliant on other companies for the chips. When the CD32, A1200, and A4000 came out, they had to wait (months) for more chips. During that time, people quit buying the older models as they wanted the new ones. Revenue dried up and Commodore couldn't pay the license fee on the XOR patent (Commodore was one of the original companies targeted by the owners of that patent as it made extensive use of XOR in the graphics). The owners of the XOR patent got an injunction against Commodore selling in the US until they paid the fee, and that was the end.