Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!VAXF.IASTATE.EDU!XGR39 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: <1991Mar21.012514.16805@news.iastate.edu> From: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 01:25:14 GMT Reply-To: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) References: <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu>,<1991Mar20.224125.10689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Lines: 35 In article <1991Mar20.224125.10689@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >In article <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes: >> >> Unfortunately, Commodore isn't exactly in a hurry to redesign the >>custom chips. Commodore has not been investing enough in research and >>development for the past five years, and recently slashed what little >>they were investing. Thus, I would not expect any improvements at all >>in the Amiga's color, graphics, sound, or floppy I/O capabilities for >>at least three years, minimum. No 24-bit color, no 8-bitplanes, no >>improvements. >> > What they've been in a hurry to do neither of us know, >and I do agree that they aren't spending as much as they should >on R&D, but where the hell do you get the info that Commodore has >SLASHED R&D? It has not decreased since I've been following the >stock. It has increased all throughout. Admittedly it is low but >NOTHING has been slashed. It has been slashed as a percentage of total sales. For the fiscal year 1990, Commodore invested 3.5% of their total sales in research and development. According to Commodore's Third Quarter Report, for the first three quarters of fiscal year 1991, Commodore invested 2.2% (approximately) of their total sales in research and devlopment. If this is not a slash, I don't know what is. -MB- > > -- Ethan > > >A tourist in New York City was overheard asking a New Yorker, > > "Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to the statue of >liberty, or should I go f*ck myself?"