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That's right. It took Commodore seven years to ship a major revision to the Amiga graphics chips, which had four times the display bandwidth and twice the blitt
by DerekL 7y ago
That's right. It took Commodore seven years to ship a major revision to the Amiga graphics chips, which had four times the display bandwidth and twice the blitter performance. They should have had a 16-fold performance increase in all categories by that time.
- snvzz 7y agoSeveral would-have-been-awesome ready or near-ready new chipset designs were discarded by CBM management. Years upon years of effort wasted, on a critical time in the history of personal computers. "This is too expensive." As if releasing what would have been the absolute best microcomputer for several years (as per what actually happened, that is, assuming the competition didn't pull a miracle after seeing it) would have no value. As if economies of scale weren't a thing. As if making it cheaper later wasn't an option. Morons. For detail on the insanity, refer to The Insider Story[0] book. [0] https://blog.amigaguru.com/book-review-commodore-the-inside-story/ https://blog.amigaguru.com/book-review-commodore-the-inside-...