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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
Message-ID: <174@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 4 Jan 91 07:40:01 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu>
Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS)
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Marc Barret, this time you've gone too far.

In article <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu writes:
>   I would seriously like someone to tell me why, over the past few years,
>Commodore's research and development has become very, very lax.  To prove
>my point I would like to present six cases in which Commodore hardware R&D
>has fallen well behind the rest of the industry -- in some cases two or
>three generations behind.
>
>   CASE 1: THE CMOS CHIPSET AND THE ATARI LYNX
>   Some of the original Amiga founders were able to scale the Amiga chipset
>down somewhat and produce a CMOS version of it that preserves the 4096 colors
>and 4-voice stereo sound of the Amiga.  Commodore, with a much larger
>budget for R&D, has been unable to do anything with the Amiga chipset except
>make some very minor improvements.  Commodore has been trying for many years
>to produce a CMOS version of the Amiga chipset that finally includes some
>significant improvements, but completion of this chipset is probably still
>many years away.

I was one of the members of the Lynx development team. I am personally insulted
by your stupid idiotic remarks.

The Lynx does NOT have anything resembling a scaled-down Amiga chipset. It has
a custom chip designed to handle sprites, can display 16 colors, NOT 4096 like
the Amiga, and has 1/4 the screen resolution of the Amiga in LOW resolution.

It DOESN'T support DMA, it DOESN'T support multiple resolutions, it only runs
at 4mhz, not 7.whatever. It does one thing, and only one thing, really well,
and that is sprite rendering. There is absolutely NO similarity between the
Amiga technology and the Lynx.

>   If a small company like Epix -- with an R&D budget much smaller than
>Commodore's -- can produce what is essentially a handheld Amiga, complete
>with the Amiga's 4096 colors and four-voice stereo sound, then Commodore
>should be able to produce a color Amiga laptop that preserves these
>capabilities of the Amiga and more.  

You spout figures as if they were fact, when in truth you don't have the
slightest idea what in the hell you're talking about. I won't even touch
on the other idiotic issues you purported to raise.

I feel very strongly that you owe myself, the rest of the Lynx development
team, the people at Commodore, and the net in general, an apology.

And next time, don't talk with your mouth full. Pull your foot out first!