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The contemporary of the Apple II and TRS-80 was the Commodore PET. The C64 came much later.

I'm talking about 8-bit microcomputers in general, from the late seventies to the mid-to-late eighties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer#Notable_home_com...

EDIT: I owned a Commodore 64 and a TRS-80 in the eighties, and used an Apple IIe at school. These were all programmable in Basic, and although the C64 was clearly the most powerful, they were all similar in power compared to, say, an Amiga.

The Amiga used the 68K so it was more powerful than the previous microcomputers that were mostly 6502 (some Z80).

Although to be fair, when referring solely to BASIC performance, MS's AmigaBasic was complete trash.

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