Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: <20026@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 21 Mar 91 20:38:31 GMT References: <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 43 In article <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes: "Deja, Deja, Deja-vu" -Jimmy Buffett OK, once again, our hero, -MB-, has not only decided he knows just what Commodore is doing, he has once again ignored all the posts by people who do actually know what's going on to straighten him out. What AM I doing wrong? I even try to use nice, simple, one and two syllable words. > Unfortunately, Commodore isn't exactly in a hurry to redesign the >custom chips. The original chips took about five years to design. In general, full custom chips always take lots of time to design. Even from "real" chip companies. Look at Motorola's 68851 or 68040. The '851 (which I used on the A2620) was about five years late. The '040 was far from "on-time". And it wasn't for lack of trying -- Motorola has the most advanced chip technologies going. Plain fact of the matter here is, you don't have the slighest idea what you're talking about when it comes to chip technology. >Commodore has not been investing enough in research and development for the >past five years, and recently slashed what little they were investing. The R&D groups have been growing steadily, and still are to date. Anyone who gets EE Times will probably have seen the ads C='s been running recently. Again, you're confusing Commodore's US Sales and Marketing operations with the Technology groups. There was a reorganization in the US company this year. This had no more to do with the Technology groups than it had to do with the German or UK Sales and Marketing organizations. These are completely different things. > I don't like it any more than anybody else, but this is the harsh and >bitter truth. One man's "harsh and bitter truth" is another man's "foolish and uninformed fiction". > -MB- -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "What works for me might work for you" -Jimmy Buffett