== Late to the market ==
Amstrad jumped into the home computer market in 1984, just in time to shake things up with its almost unique all-in-one concept (for the other one was home market. Note: The [[Commodore PET]] and the [[Apple Macintosh ]] were also all-in-one designs and both were launched a few months before the Amstrad CPC 464), but these computers were more targeted to education and business.
It even happened after the [[MSX]] Standard of 1983 which was thought at the time to be the end of the "cowboy" era of disparate and incompatible 8bit computers.