Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!VAXF.IASTATE.EDU!XGR39 From: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - Mem management and resou Message-ID: <1991Apr5.173422.6215@news.iastate.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 17:34:22 GMT References: <1991Apr4.034655.3681@uniwa.uwa.oz><1991Apr5.144106.390@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>,<40924@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Lines: 64 In article <40924@cup.portal.com>, FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes: >Good 'Ol -MB- wants ta know why CBM hasn't improved the chips yet. And >Randall tells him he's too impatient. Well, we all know the *real* >reason, don't we? It's because -MB- hasn't COMPLAINED enough yet. CBM >isn't gonna get serious about improving the old design until -MB- makes >them uncomfortable enough. They'll just tweak it here and there to >patronize him when he gets up on his soapbox so he'll leave 'em alone >until his blood pressure builds up the next time. So come on -MB-, >let 'em have it! Bitch! Moan! Complain! Turn up the Heat! Push that >design, lift that test suite. You gotta make the 'chippies' at CBM >nauseaous to the point they work 24 hours a day and get the new chip set >done. Fini. Finished. Completed. So get going -MB- and Stick It To >CBM but be Serious this time, OK? Stay on that soapbox until the new >chip set is done, (or until an unruly mob of crazed, tired, over-worked, >nauseaous former CBM chip designers hunts you down and rips you into >Little Tiny Pieces.) I can tell that you totally misunderstand me. My intention is not to pressure the 'chippies' at Commodore to work harder until the design is done. With R&D investments so low, they are probably far too overworked as it is. Rather, my intention is to pressure the Commodore management to fork over more investment capital for R&D, so that Commodore can hire more chippies, relieve the pressure on the ones who are already working, and give them all the best engineering hardware development equipment that is available. Commodore has the capital, but their management just doesn't use it. For the fiscal year 1990, Commodore's profits were down, but they still had well over $90 Million that they could have used to increase R&D had they wanted to. For the fiscal year of 1991, Commodore should have even more investment capital available. Therefore, there are no excuses for the R&D investments per year to be on the level of 2% of net sales. What I would like to know is, what dire evils would come to Commodore's engineering department if I had my way? My flames are not directed at anyone in the engineering department, as it is my oppinion that they are all some of the best engineers in the computer industry today. Rather, my flames are directed only at Commodore's management, which does not give them the funds they need to get their projects done quickly. Unfortunately, Commodore's management does not read CSA, and the engineers who do read it have to put up with the brunt of my flames. I can really hardly blame them for not liking me, though I think if they stepped back and took a look at what I am trying to accomplish, they would see that my intention is not to make them feel bad but to give them long-term job security and make them all filthy rich, (even at the possible expense of my own personal future). For this reason, I intend to start trying to more directly influence the heart of the problem -- the management -- though I cannot yet say precisely how. > >Tongue firmly in cheek I remain, >Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com -MB- ---------------------------------------------------------- / Marc Barrett | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / / ISU COM S Student | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU / ----------------------------------------------------------