Re: CIA old/new?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <*gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de*> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 16:04:07 +0100 Message-ID: <46d5923a-303c-bd9a-eb2a-dca49db478de_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de> · gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de

On 1/5/21 3:46 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 10:43:45AM +0000, smf wrote:
>> Do you think the 6581 filters were well done?
> 
> They are fine, but state variable filters (like most filters) require
> reasonable opamps.  Which they didn't do...  too little space was left
> in the end, is one story; too little time, another.
> 
>> In the main Commodore shipped crap and fixed issues if the product sold
>> in enough quantities.
> 
> And most of the industry does that now.  They call it "agile".

Yes, when they were shipping stuff with the firmware in ROMs/EPROMs, 
they had to do a better job before shipping the result. Now, with flash, 
they ship you a firmware that kind of works and supply updates via web 
that you have to install.

  Gerrit