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From: BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: For all you who want more advertizing
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Date: 24 Oct 90 05:56:24 GMT
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In article <15331@cbmvax.commodore.com> Dave Haynie
<daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com> writes:

>In article <34005@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:

>>If Commodore had started doing any research and development of the 32-bit 
>>chipset three years ago, it should be finished by now!  
>
>Obviously I can't say anything directly about this.  But I will remind the
>audience that the first Amiga chip set took about 5 years to complete.  And
>Commodore has produced new and improved versions of the original set, the
>ECS chips, which are shipping in the 3000 and, at least with Agnus, everywhere
>else.

   I would like to add that most of the R&D on the original chipset was
done by the original Amiga company, which was a very small company with
only thousands of dollars to spend on R&D.  Even though Commodore is not
as big as, say, Apple, IBM, or Compaq, Commodore is still much, much 
bigger than the original Amiga company, with millions of dollars to spend
on R&D.  More money means less time to complete R&D.  So, I maintain 
that the 32-bit chipset should be done by done, if Commodore has been
working on it for any time at all.
   

>-- 
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