Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Give The Amiga Some Credit Already! Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 00:34:40 GMT References: <30189@know.pws.bull.com><1991Jun17.205807.13064@news.iastate.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 28 taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > My complaints with Commodore with respect to high-density floppy drives >have to do with the stupid way Commodore got the drives to work on Amigas >(slowing down the drive motor to allow the Paula chip to keep up? Give >me a break!), and the fact that they waited four years to do it. Maybe the motor technoligy wasn't there to run a disk drive at those lower speeds. Or the heads, etc.... I will agree with you on this one, its a major hack in my eyes, but seeing how I can understand how a company like Commodore thinks, they are probably looking to put these HD drives in the US$449 Amiga 500's in a year or two... It would be nice to see the PAULA chip upgraded, with major improvements in the microfloppy controller and some buffers in the UART. But any change is welcome by me from Commodore. We're talking about the company that set the C64 in stone in 1981, except for some minor ROM bug zaps..And has been burned by Management...Remember the 264? How about the 364? How much money was wasted because of someone at the top wanting to put them out of business? I can imagine that some people at Commodore are more conserative because of whats happened in the past... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.