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Exploring the Amiga 3000 and Sun Microsystems: A Look Back at Missed Opportunities

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11mo ago· 16 min readenOpinion
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Summary

The article delves into the lore of the Amiga 3000 and its potential deal with Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s, reflecting on the missed opportunities and management failures at Commodore.

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Many of them are retold to demonstrate how the incompetence of Commodore's management destroyed a platform that, by rights, was destined for success.
Coulda, shoulda, and the Amiga woulda risen as rightful ruler of all other computer platforms, forever and ever. Amen.
One of those stories is about how Sun Microsystems allegedly showed interest in the Amiga 3000 during the early 1990s.
Alas, the more I think about it, t
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