Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It

Esther Schindler writes "Some products just didn't deserve to die. But they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. Dearly Departed, revisits several favorites — from minicomputers to software utilities — and mourns the best and brightest that died an untimely death. What companies or products would you add? Which of them deserved to go?"

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Amiga had 320x200 graphics resolution

[Joce640k]

"with graphics a lot of PCs still don't have today"

Amiga had 320x200 graphics resolution with up to six Bits Per Pixel (64 colors).

If you turned on more than four bits per pixel the graphics ate into the CPUs memory access. At six BPP the CPU would be running at a fraction of its normal speed.

The only thing is was really good at was bouncing/scrolling the screen (ie. "demos"). Any PC with VGA graphics (ie. every PC since mid-1990s) has had better color/resolution.

Re:Netscape?

[evilviper]

Most people think it was inherently superior,

No they don't.

maybe even because it didn't crash every on every fifth page load.

Netscape 4 was significantly more stable than IEv4. It had plenty of bugs and glitches, but IEv4 was worse, just not dramatically worse.

It's not like I'm making this up.

In fact you are. You're using your opinion (or perhaps what you incorrectly remember as your opinion) and asserting that it was everyone's opinion.