On 5/01/2021 6:43 pm, smf wrote: > > 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. > Look at the chip from a functionality point of view and it was fantastic. They made it work, it sold millions and decades later a good number of those chips still work. > Do you think the 6581 filters were well done? > How many other comparable synth chips of the day were there to compare it to? > 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. > It's easy to dump on people with the benefit of hindsight but who was there designing chips for products when it mattered? > 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 18:00:03
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