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>>>>> 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

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