FOSS desk's roundup of the slip-ups and missteps from the dawn of the microcomputer industry onward – at least those that are most memorable to us.of this feature series, we took a look at some of the missed chances of the early era of mass-market microcomputers: the eight-bit machines. This overlaps substantially with the following generation of 16-bit machines.would be the killer feature for this market.
In this period, both companies spent far too much effort trying to outdo one another. For instance, not wanting to be left out, Atari also briefly offered a. To us, looking back from the 21st century, this seems like an admission that their proprietary models weren't viable business machines. The widely told story is that Acorn surveyed the market, evaluating 16-bit chips from Intel, Motorola, National Semiconductor, and others, before deciding to go it alone with the