Design case history: the Commodore 64 (1985) [pdf]

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It's a shame that there is no longer this level of openness in talking about tech and engineering. Even in modern papers, there is still a lacking of 'bigger picture'

How much of this is to hide proprietary information, and how much is because no one person actually understands the bigger picture enough to write about it?

This is a nice read on the same topic too:

https://www.filfre.net/2012/12/the-commodore-64/

It's incredible how much I miss this kind of articles, like those I read on Byte and on several other magazines.

I am old, I know.

I really enjoyed Acorn User and later Byte and Dr Dobbs. MagPi sort of has that quality now, but because there's so much information on the Internet now, I just don't think there's a need for that type of magazine any longer.

And a magazine like Byte would be very expensive these days.

I would pay for something that I can hold in my hands and read that has deep detailed and interesting stories. I would love to have a new magazine that is somewhere between Dr. Dobbs and Byte.

To be fair, I pay for the Finance Times and The Economist right now because I find them to be worth more then the free information I can find on the web.

My dad had a pretty much complete set of Byte from the early days until some point in the mid to late 80s. Sadly he tossed them at some point.

(Byte is available on archive.org, but it's just not the same.)

Nice article. I actually liked it better than the book "Commodore: A company on the edge" which is a bit lengthy :)

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