One of the biggest and lengthy platform battles happened during the late 80's and early 90's. Long before the established status quo of IBM compatible PC's had taken over the business world and multi-tasking operating systems became the norm, a whole new path and direction was taking shape. Personal computers had long since been established with 2 company's taking the lead to grow that market in very bold, exciting and yet similar paths. I start my 2 part dive into a big part of my gaming childhood, 2 titans in Atari and Commodore, I look into the hardware that these machines were built on, the similarities and differences in addition to the leading edge Operating Systems they also helped usher in, and we largely still use derivatives of today. Part 2 will cover the games and how these machines delivered them, which is just as interesting as the hardware itself. And some of those expectations, which were not always met.