Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!bagate!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Where is Dave headed? (Was Re: Thank you C= Folks!!!) Message-ID: <16431@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 11 Dec 90 00:18:17 GMT References: <2293@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 24 In article eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: > No Dave doesn't work on the OS, he designs and lays out PC boards >like the 2000, the 2620, the 2630, the 3000.... Now what board do you >think currently has 50 disconnects? (Hint: If you buy a 3000 it has >3500 layouts in the manual so it almost certainly isn't that.) Wrong again! I work on the system design, which reaches it's final expression (final for me, 'till we get a board at least) as the schematic. This is then electronically transferred to Terry Fisher, usually, who then proceeds to make the layout. This then goes to little elves outside of the building, and comes back as a real PCB. I have also done two gate arrays, the Buster chips in the A2000 and A3000, as well as system "architecture" stuff, which ranges from "ok, guys, how do we split up the functions in this new system" to "we need a 32 bit bus, what shall I do to stay compatible and still go fast". The latter one took me from August of 1988 until around May of 1990 to get done.... > Robert I. Eachus -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "I can't drive 55" -Sammy Hagar