Atari/Commodore hybrid, was Re: General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars)

[Alexandre Souza - Listas]

>> > And the built-in MIDI. That was its killer feature to my musician buddy 
>> > who
>> > used an ST up until only a few years ago, when he replaced it with a 
>> > Mac.
>> What is this, 1987?  Amiga realized the importance of MIDI.  I still have 
>> my
>> pre-release handmade dongle that RJ sent me.  Commercial MIDI adapters 
>> were
>> pretty cheap, which satisfied the tiny fraction of the market who wanted 
>> MIDI.
> I don't know much about MIDI on the Amiga, but I saw (my personal 
> experience)
> many more STs doing music work than Amigas. If Amiga had this by 1987, it
> was obviously too late to make a significant dent in that particular 
> niche,
> at least around here.

    With built-in MIDI, it was easy to make it a huge success between 
musicians. This is one of the (few) biggest mistakes of the Amiga