#Philadelphia Inquirer
26-Jul-94 05:31:42
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Fm: Dale Larson 76702,654
To: Mark D. Manes 74030,744
Yes I know you work for Scala in VA. The engineering types are in PA.
🙂
Insurmountable in theory and not worth the amount of money it would take
aren't the same thing. But it is a semantic difference.
Realistically, if I handed you everything it would take to produce AAA
Amigas, how many of them do you think you would sell? Remember, you have
to charge a lot more than the PowerPC and Pentium systems because you
can't use most of the commodity parts and have custom parts that you can't
get a really high volume on. The market for AAA Amigas is no larger than
that for AA Amigas — though it might slow the downsizing of the market.
So how much R&D money is it worth?
I'm not saying its impossible. I'm not even saying it would be stupid.
I'm just saying that I wouldn't be suprised at all to never see any
serious revisions to produce new Amiga desk top computers. All bets are
off, of course, for what happens with any specialty systems.
Dale L. Larson Intangible Assets Manufacturing (info@iam.com)
"That's the best part about being crazy. You see things no one else can see."