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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
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- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:37:37 GMT
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- :
- : Oh please, custom chips are hardly the reason CBM failed! I think that their
- : mistakes have been gone over more than enough already.
- : Also, how's this, when did even those in the known about the Amiga start
- : dropping it? When they lost faith that CBM would ever do anything much for the
- : chipset. CBM did keep updating the OS. Yet everyone left.
-
- It's impossible to know what factors all played a part in the death of C=,
- but IMO proprietary chipsets were one of them. They proved that they were
- incapable of keeping the chipsets competitive, and the design of their
- computers made it difficult (or impossible) for users to upgrade to the
- latest chipset. It's pretty obvious that this didn't help their sales...
- Custom chips made sense in 1985, but they are just a silly idea in the
- late 90s. Glad to hear that AT knows this.
-
- Reg Martin
-