http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/9/2936643/commodore-founder-jack-tramiel-dies

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International and its iconic computers, died on Sunday, April 8th at the age of 83, Forbes reports. Tramiel was born in Poland in 1939, and survived his family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and a German labor camp during World War 2. After emigrating to the US in 1947, he joined the army and learned how to repair typewriters — and later founded a typewriter business named Commodore Portable Typewriter. After years of innovation in the market for business machines, Commodore evolved from selling typewriters, to adding machines, to digital calculators, and finally to home computers — including the legendary Commodore 64, which dominated the PC market for years in the 1980s.

After leaving Commodore in 1984, Tramiel bought the consumer division of Atari, and oversaw development of the Atari 2600jr, the Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, and the 64-bit Jaguar console. Tramiel's aggressive business practices are said to have been responsible for driving down prices in the home computer market in the 1980s, which made PCs more accessible to more people.

RIP

Some of my first computer experiences were on the Commodore 64.

Commodore 64 with a Hesmon cartridge is how I learned assembly language.

He inspired an entire generation of geeks!

actually the jaguar was 8bit. They said do the math 8 8bit cpus. much like pcs=macs now. With thier 8bit graphics and 2bit sound. All of which u cant mulititaks on a DOS based system.

Amiga on the other hand:
True 64bit cpu gone to True 64bit PARISC and beyond
True 48bit graphics plux the 8bit Alpha in each superior channel of RGBE
True 256bit sound or usually used true 128bit with the Toaster/Flyer which still cant be beat.
Who cares about bill gates this or steve jobs that may he RIP . they both use Amigas.

Jay Miner is The Father of Modern Computers Period.

Summary Amigas are best period

R.I.P!! Guess it was just his time to go.