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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster?
Message-ID: <6468@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 91 20:20:35 GMT
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Organization: I and I Computing, Palo Alto, CA
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(Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
)(Jim Mackraz) (Me) writes:
)> 
)> C= gets pretty good bang for its buck from the Engineering team, esp.
)> if you consider how much effort is spent on interim band-aids,
)> such as the A2024 monitor, the Amber circuit, and the "Productivity mode"
)> of ECS Denise (which also ate up a considerable amount of system
)> software resources to support...).
)> 
)I completely fail to follow your reasoning here. 
)How can the return on investment be good if it is being spent on
)a bad (poor) overall design? Perhaps the individual detail engineers
)are good, but if the high level design engineers specify a RUBE
)GOLDBERG or otherwise inappropriate design, then no amount of clever
)circuit design will overcome that.

The team is strong and does good work.  This is my point.

I think there have been problems at the strategy level, and budget.

If CDTV is cutting deeply into hardware Engineering resources, or
is screwing up the future OS enhancement (CDTV runs V1.3), then
there is a very significant "strategy" being played.

Whether that's true, and whether it's a bright move or not, remain
to be seen.  But I get the feeling that Irving wouldn't be in 
the computer business if he didn't have to be.  Personal opinion,
and I don't know the man.

	jimm

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