Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Chip memory bandwidth, graphics modes Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 90 13:27:19 GMT References: <8219@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <14120@grebyn.com> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 29 In-reply-to: ckp@grebyn.com's message of 4 Jan 90 16:34:37 GMT >>>>> On 4 Jan 90 16:34:37 GMT, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) said: ckp> I have this odd theory, though, that when Jay left Amiga he took ckp> a lot of the custom-chip knowledge with him, and that Commodore has only ckp> recently (if at all?!?) figured out how they work. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If Commodore felt that they needed Jay's expertise to update the Amiga chip set, they would have asked him to be a consultant or work on a freelance basis, like Dale, JimM, and others do now. ckp> This would explain ckp> the length of time it took to get the mildly-Enhanced Chip Set ckp> produced, and some of the oddities: I'm not a VLSI designer, so I don't know anything about the oddities, but I would blame the ECS delay more on Commodore's mis-management of the Amiga product line than anything else. For example, when Commodore decimated the Los Gatos facility, development work on Intuition ground to a halt for a year or so. I wouldn't be surprised to discover that Amiga hardware development was similarly impeded by bad management. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM Entry Systems Division -- Engineering