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- From: magnus.thelander@jetset.ct.se (Magnus Thelander)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Reaction totThe truth about Ali & Sydnes!
- Message-ID: <2dd86cad@jetset.ct.se>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 94 01:05:00 +0200
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- DH> I can tell you that his efforts in Engineering led directly to the
- DH> demise of Commodore. Before Ali brought in Sydnes, things were running
- DH> very smoothly toward a release of AA systems in the spring of 1992,
- DH> including the A1000+ ($1000 32-bit AA system) and A3000+ (an A3000
- DH> update with AA, DSP3210, and MC68040). There was an ultra low end A300
- DH> (low cost sub-A500), planned to complement the line, not replace the
- DH> A500. After Sydnes, who has hand picked by Ali despite his total lack
- DH> of any qualifications for the position, was had AA purposely delayed by
- DH> 6 month, the A4000 with its IDE bus rather than the A3000+, etc. This
- DH> delay caused the big financial woes of 1993, since there weren't enough
- DH> AA systems ready (you can't ramp up that fast, especially when chips
- DH> like Lisa, Bridgette, Gayle, etc are made outside of Commodore and need
- DH> to be ordered well in advance, which they weren't). No one wanted the
- DH> A600 (which we likened to the Amiga version of the PLUS/4 -- so wrong
- DH> the engineers knew it), but it was forced out in place of the A500, and
- DH> the A500 cancelled. Ali did this. And the A600 cost MORE than the
- DH> A500, let us not forget. Sydnes wasted time building what we called the
- DH> A1000jr (important symbolism here -- Sydnes was the PCjr guy at IBM), an
- DH> ECS based slighly scaled down A3000. This one was so wrong no country
- DH> would order any.
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- Argh! This pisses me off so much I could kill Ali & Sydnes!
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