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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (was: Haynie joins AT team)
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 08:40:11 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <151250@cup.portal.com>
- References: <4j3ltf$l99@serpens.rhein.de> <1504.6660T1391T2901@es.co.nz>
- <1996Mar28.182233.5063@scala.scala.com>
- <1996Mar28.212815.8493@scala.scala.com>
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-
- >In <1996Mar28.182233.5063@scala.scala.com>, darren@scala.scala.com ("Darren M.
- >Greenwald") writes:
- >>In article <1504.6660T1391T2901@es.co.nz> bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer) writ
- e
- >s:
- >
- >>>Michael van Elst, regarding your message ' Re: Dump the crappy hardware!!! (
- w
- >>>
- >>>>kpluck@es.co.nz (Kevin Pluck) writes:
- >
- >>>>>AT are making the wrong move with trying to design hardware for the amiga
- >>>>>when they should be making the amiga designed for other hardware. Why
- >>>>>reinvent the wheel?
- >
- >>>>Because you cannot make money with selling an operating system.
- >
- >>>What's microslop doing then ?
- >
- >>>Before you say they are making money off the apps running under
- >>>windoze, what makes you think that a new amigados could not do the
- >>>same ?
- >
- >C= was always a hardware company, from the ground up. When everyone
- >made their own systems, C= did it better and cheaper, and the OS was
- >pretty much just a way to sell the computer. Fortunately the Amiga
- >started out with a very good OS, but that's not something C= typically
- >was concerned with from the top.
- >
- >And it's was worse for C= and Apple than the typical PC company. While
- >they had more control over their hardware designs, they never tapped
- >into the whole economy of scale thing that happened in the late 80s
- >and early 90s. Under the old model, every PC vendor did most of their
- >own work: systems design, graphics, etc. Gradually, independent chip
- >companies filled the niches, much like Motorola and Intel has always
- >provided the CPUs. So today's system houses, for the most part, don't
- >develop their own chips or system designs. Some OEM whole systems or
- >motherboards, others may tweak an existing system design here and
- >there. This results in a major cost savings that Apple or C= could
- >never tap into.
- >
- >Of course, neither Apple nor Commodore ever attempted to do a port to
- >the PC platform. They certainly could have, and for Apple at least,
-
- [much snipping]
-
- >Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
- >Sr. Systems Engineer | Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
- >Scala Inc., US R&D | Ki No Kawa Aikido | info@iam.com
-
- Dave ... many of us are wondering about this. Can you give us a synopsis of
- your version of a Power Amiga ... which directions Amiga Technologies
- should take perhaps?
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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