Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!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.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga Custom Chips - why hasn't C= made them faster? Message-ID: <1991Apr17.073837.2647@news.iastate.edu> Date: 17 Apr 91 07:38:37 GMT References: <1991Apr9.171123.21360@news.iastate.edu> <12431@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1991Apr12.175631.3173@news.iastate.edu>,<1991Apr16.015953.22600@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Lines: 53 In article <1991Apr16.015953.22600@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991Apr12.175631.3173@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes: >[ bunch of useless figures ] > >Looks like you included the inital R&D for the Amiga, and left that out for >the Sun. Plus, I believe the margin on a Sun is a bit higher than for an >Amiga. How about listing R&D as % of net, or something at least *vaguely* >rational? I *DID* list R&D as a percentage of net sales. Just look at the tables again. The second column list the Net Sales of both companies, which I called Total Sales (exactly the same thing), and the fourth column lists the R&D investments of both companies as a percentage of Total Sales or Net Sales, which I abbreviated to 'Sales'. I have included the tables again, in a slightly edited fashion for people like you who cannot recognize synonyms in economics terms. Commodore International, Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------- Year | Total Net Sales | R&D | R&D as % of Total Net Sales | ------------------------------------------------------------- 1990 | 887.3 | 27.7 | 3.12 % | 1989 | 939.7 | 19.3 | 2.05 % | 1988 | 871.1 | 15.4 | 1.77 % | 1987 | 806.7 | 16.4 | 2.03 % | 1986 | 889.3 | 36.8 | 4.14 % | 1985 | 883.1 | 46.5 | 5.27 % | 1984 | 1267.2 | 40.3 | 3.18 % | ------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Microsystems -------------------------------------------------------------- Year | Total Net Sales | R&D | R&D as % of Total Net Sales | -------------------------------------------------------------- 1989 | 1765.366 | 234.1 | 13.26 % | 1988 | 1051.618 | 139.9 | 13.30 % | 1987 | 537.537 | 69.6 | 12.94 % | 1986 | 210.104 | 30.6 | 14.59 % | 1985 | 115.249 | 15.2 | 13.18 % | 1984 | 38.860 | 4.8 | 12.38 % | -------------------------------------------------------------- >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. ---------------------------------------------------------- / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / / ISU COM S Student | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU / ----------------------------------------------------------