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From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore!
Message-ID: <1962@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 21 Mar 91 04:12:03 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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In article <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (MB) 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.  
>
>   I don't like it any more than anybody else, but this is the harsh and
>bitter truth.  When a company like Commodore invests nothing in their
>future, the future cannot be expected to be bright.  Commodore has not
>been investing in their own future, and the future isn't bright for 
>either themselves or the Amiga.  


Marc - 

How about backing up some of your accusations with facts?  The recent cutback
in operations was in CBM, the US marketing company.  Commodore engineering is
a separate subsidiary of Commodore International, and was actually hiring new
employees during the time of the CBM retrenchment/reorganization.

IMHO, you are very wrong in stating the Commodore is investing nothing in 
their future.  The number of new products that Commodore has introduced in
the past few years indicates they are not standing still.  While we as users
might like more and better products faster, there are many priorities for
research and development, and not all of these can be met by even the 
largest corporation.

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