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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 21:14:11 GMT
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In article <5508@network.ucsd.edu>, simon@ivem1.uucp (Simon) writes:
>>They're going to have to find the money from someplace. Ever heard the
>>phrase: "You have to spend money to make money?"
>>
>>Laurana
>>|lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu  | couldn't get any worse.              |
>
>Does that mean you're going to help finance them? :^)  And not just
>1 or 5 Amigas being bought.  It's easy to say "they need to find the
>money" but it's a little harder to get it, especially with the tight
>budget times we're in right now.  CBM is just like you and me, they
>have a limited budget and funding.  They can't just go and pump money
>they don't have into R&D or into customer support or other limited
>areas, but they have to distribute it into many different areas in
>order to make the company work. 

   The original Amiga company that made the Amiga (or, as it was called back
then, the Lorraine) was a joystick company that spent every penny of their
corporate incoming (and then some) on development of the Amiga.  They 
invested every dime they could earn or borrow in their dream.

   Now, answer this: where would the Amiga be today if, instead, these
people at the original Amiga company had, instead, played it safe and only
invested 2.5% of their corporate income on development of the Amiga?  
[junk deleted]

>
>-Simon
>-- 
>*   Simon Lee                   *   Microscopy and Imaging Resources	*
>*   simon@ivem1.ucsd.edu        *   Intermediate Voltage Electron Micro	*
>*   sulee@ucsd.edu              *   UC San Diego, Dept. of Neuroscience	*

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