Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster? Message-ID: <20354@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 4 Apr 91 03:46:05 GMT References: <1991Apr2.235710.13984@news.iastate.edu> <20324@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 27 In article <1991Apr2.235710.13984@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes: [ flames about commodore not having introduced new chip sets...] Stupid me, for responding to M. Barrett, but.... A quick head-count around here reveals that software guys are outnumbered by chippies, not even counting hardware guys like Dave. However, no amount of torture will get out of me they work on... ;-) As usual, you have absolutely no concept what you're talking about. Also, Sun (a relatively high-end (and thus high-overhead)) startup would be expected to put more % into R&D. They have far bigger margins, and your figures were as a percentage of total sales. As for Commodore, we understand quite well the issues involved, and your comments do nothing more than act as catharsis for you (apparently, you need a lot of catharsis) (and of course to annoy people reading them). followups to .advocacy... -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)