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- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Msg from Carl Sassenrath (VISCorp)
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 13:29:42 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- "Julio C. Arroyo" (jcarroyo@ix.netcom.com) writes:
- > Low cost does not mean off the shelf parts etc.. A goal of any technology
- > company is to provide the best product for the money. A proprietary system
-
- Not necessarily. The goal is more like to make the best profit. Quite
- often it has nothing to do being the best product. See VHS vs
- Beta, PC vs Amiga. Marketing is everything.
-
- > of custom chips with a tightly integrated OS would require less resources
- > on the motherboard than off the shelf components, hence a lower pricepoint
- > per unit among other things. If this was not so then VisCorp has no reason
- > to buy AT, the Mac Pippin and the Oracle system would have not followed the
- > same route.
-
- Unfortunately it is true. The only problem is that the proprietary system is
- optimized for the set top market. It is not for the desktop computing.
- Do you still do your work on a TV ?
-
- > Keep the faith
- > Julio C Arroyo
-
- K. C. Lee
-