Pretty much what I said about ali - he was a hatchet man. Gould making Medi Ali CEO in 90, or whenever it was, destroyed the company. Tramiel was generally di

Pretty much what I said about ali - he was a hatchet man. Gould making Medi Ali CEO in 90, or whenever it was, destroyed the company. Tramiel was generally disliked, but they did pretty well under him until he left. Engineering was decimated both in manpower and budget by Ali. Morale was wrecked too - lots who weren't pushed just left. I don't know how many were left in engineering, but it wasn't many. It was also Gould/Ali that destroyed the Unix deal with Sun. AAA was specced 10x or more faster than original chipset, and way overdue. It was meant to land 91/92 of course. I think the reason they looked at RISC 3D was also cost - budget to get AAA to silicon under Ali was never going to happen, so buy in something. It wasn't 3D so I've no idea how it'd compare with voodoo etc.