I don't know. The PLA, VIC2, TED & 7501 had a lot of manufacturing issues. The VIC2 had some design issues, for example the 64 clocks per line and requirement of PLL to fix the dot crawl in the early days. Do you think the 6581 filters were well done? In the main Commodore shipped crap and fixed issues if the product sold in enough quantities. There is an argument that Bil Herd is responsible for the C128 faults as anyone else would have let the product fail in the crucible of fire. I get the impression he feels guilty as he keeps going on about it ;-) I'm not saying that shipping something crappy is a bad strategy, it's perfectly valid to build market share as long as you fix the issues and you don't kill anyone in the meantime. On 05/01/2021 07:29, Jim Brain wrote: > I would agree with Gerrit on this. I think the rest of the ICs were > well done. As a hardware designer, I have absolutely no idea what the > IC designer of the VDC was thinking. I've heard a dozen variations on > the story, and none of them make any sense from the IC design point of > view. I hope that person never designed anything else in the IC > industry. > > Jim > > -- > Jim Brain > brain_at_jbrain.com > www.jbrain.comReceived on 2021-01-05 12:00:03
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