Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!umeecs!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!quest!orbit!zuhause!bruce From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development. Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 91 15:02:00 GMT References: <1991Jan9.095821.22197@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Lines: 25 >There is something pretty sad about all this MB vs EveryAmigaProgrammer. >Nobody is listening.... MB comments go straight into the trashcan, without >any consideration at all, followed by a number of derogatory attacks on his >personal views that do nothing for the image of Commodore, nor for the >personal image of the attacker. It seems that a lot of Amiga programmers >are in a state of Paranoia that blinds them from seeing past their nose. I think there are very few Amiga owners who would not agree with Marc Barrett that Commodore should be developing hardware and software to improve the resolution and number of colors the Amiga can display. The problem is that Marc Barrett tends to post a half a dozen articles a month, every month, announcing the doom of the Amiga because they aren't improving it the way he wants it improved. He's been doing this for several years. There's at least one university that decided not to buy Amigas primarily because of a few rants by Barrett about a year ago. Many of his postings on why it would be easy to improve the Amiga in the ways he wants it improved, or comparisons with other systems are wrong, and show a deep lack of understanding of the technical issues. Most recently, he posted several articles which were grossly inaccurate in terms of hardware, as well as totally inaccurate in terms of Commodore's business organization. His claims that Commodore would be laying people off in R&D when, in fact, the were actually hiring, is at least as damaging, if not more so, than anything his detractors could do. -- bruce@zuhause.mn.org