Timeline for Was Amiga the last of the home retrocomputers sold?
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| Jul 14, 2017 at 18:29 | history | edited | snips-n-snails | CC BY-SA 3.0 | ARM 1987 |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 20:24 | comment | added | bjb | Sun SPARC boxes are still being produced, though not as desktops anymore. However, you COULD use a Sun server as your PC if you really wanted to and it would be more-or-less comparable to what you bought 20 years ago. I wouldn't include the x86 Solaris machines in this since that is different from the CPU front, but for the most part a Solaris SPARC application from 1995 could run on a 2017 Solaris SPARC server. But as 6502 Apple II? No, definitely retro since the platform no longer exists despite the CPU still being available in 2017. A 2017 6502-based platform isn't retro, IMHO. | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 19:14 | comment | added | snips-n-snails | @bjb That's a good point. The CPU itself isn't retro because it's still being produced, just not for workstations or home computers. For the same reason, can we say that the 6502 and Z80 also are not retro? | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 17:30 | comment | added | bjb | I'm not sure I would qualify a Sun SPARC machine as "retro" as they're still being produced today. Sure, the microSPARC might qualify from an age perspective since UltraSPARC succeeded it in the late 90s, but Sun SPARC is still available in the server arena (for now!) | |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 14:42 | history | edited | snips-n-snails | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Alpha |
| Jun 17, 2017 at 0:14 | history | edited | snips-n-snails | CC BY-SA 3.0 | ESCOM went bankrupt and sued QuikPak. |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 23:52 | history | edited | snips-n-snails | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Win10 != retro |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 23:35 | history | edited | snips-n-snails | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Transmeta Crusoe, ARM, MIPS, SPARC. |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 22:10 | history | edited | snips-n-snails | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 1998 |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 20:39 | history | answered | snips-n-snails | CC BY-SA 3.0 |