Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!sialis!orbit!zuhause!bruce From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - Mem management and resou Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 04:07:03 GMT Article-I.D.: zuhause.bruce.8214 References: <1991Apr4.034655.3681@uniwa.uwa.oz><1991Apr5.144106.390@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>,<40924@cup.portal.com> <1991Apr5.173422.6215@news.iastate.edu> Organization: Society to Stamp Out Bogus Organizations Lines: 22 In article <1991Apr5.173422.6215@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) writes: > 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. First, the new Amigas would cost a lot more. For example, Dave Haynie says that the twice as fast chips would require faster DRAM than is typically available commercially (and ZIPs already are twice as expensive as Mac/IBM SIMMs) because of the timing issues. Second, the market for the high end machines is so much smaller than the low end machines because CBM has a low end customer base world-wide, and a very small customer base in the workstation area. Unless CBM has reasonable expectations of expanding in the high-end market, they should concentrate on what they can dominate, and provide an upgrade path that provides reasonable performance. -- bruce@zuhause.mn.org