[HN Gopher] Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers' Story
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       Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers' Story
        
       Author : amichail
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2025-04-30 01:04 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | crb wrote:
       | (1985)
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       | Previous discussion:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30895210
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       | If you're interested in the history of Commodore, I thoroughly
       | recommend the Commodore International Historical Society at
       | https://commodore.international/. Dave has pulled together many
       | of the people who were there at the time. For example, here's an
       | Amiga panel from the recent VCF East:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_AYDkuMg-U
        
         | pjmlp wrote:
         | And the part 2 of the Amiga Panel,
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvTOFYykBTQ
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         | There is an older one from VCF, which were a couple of
         | sessions, where I was proven wrong, some of the engineers
         | actually wanted the Amiga to be UNIX like first, the way it
         | turned out to be was a sequence of decisions that eventually
         | made it the way it was in the end. Thankfully, as it had plenty
         | of cool ideas, many of which never got out of the Amiga into
         | other platforms.
         | 
         | Looking forward to watch these.
        
       | jandrese wrote:
       | > Running a 5-micrometer-technology chip at an 8-MHz clock rate
       | caused it to dissipate a great deal of power--nearly 1.5 watts.
       | 
       | So quaint in our era of 500w graphics cards.
        
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