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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster?
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 19:36:34 GMT
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  Marc,
     One thing your table doesn't take into account is PROFITS. Sure, I
could have a company that sells $500 million in computers a year, but
only makes 10 million profit to invest back into the company. Remember,
a year or two ago, Commodore was running almost a non-profit company.
(I recall, one quarter they only back 7 million profit). Why don't you
research R&D as a percentage of total profiT?
 
    I bet both Apple and AT&T have very high R&D %'s because they 
have very large profit margins.
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