Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!cpca From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga Video Lamers was Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ? Summary: Productivity is a joke Message-ID: <1991Jun10.034749.17738@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Date: 10 Jun 91 03:47:49 GMT References: <1991Jun8.202434.22621@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> <1991Jun8.234020.29594@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland Lines: 36 In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes: >> >>Have YOU used productivity?? This has to be the biggest lemon that C= >>ever wasted their money on developing. >> > >Didn't you read what some of the Commodore engineers have posted to the net? >They added the productivity modes to the Denise chip so they can take an off >the shelf part(ECS Denise) and use it in their CAD systems. > >Sounds like they got some people on the ball over there. Why build an new >engine from scratch when you can modify an existing one and use it in a larger >car? Understand what I am saying? Being flexable is how smaller, more >agressive companies survive in America, no matter how many times people write >their death sentances. Productivity is a joke. If you have a 500/2000 then it's just WAY TOO SLOW to bother using it (if you can find software that works properly to let you open a window full size!). If you have something higher than a 68000 based machine then you'll just use the 2320 and get bigger speed, more colours, and better system performance. Why did C= waste time developing Productivity when they could have bought flixer-fixers instead, and started on a real chip set ? -- Colin Adams Computer Science Department James Cook University Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au North Queensland 'And on the eighth day, God created Manchester'