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Originally Posted by Kyle_Human
I would love to know how MOS made the masks without having layouts and schematics, especially since Jerri Elsworth has them and has shown them off in public.
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Of course they had them to make the masks, but once done the rest of the materials disappeared
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I have heard this rumour about "missing schematics so they had to do it from scratch" for every commodore product from 80 column pet to GO64 mode in C128 to C65 to AGA and the one thing uniting them is it's a load of shite.
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I think it is quite believable and explains a lot.
Commodore never saw their computers as "platforms", that need constant development and refinement ... until the Amiga came along.
But even then, they realized it far too late.
Just have a look at the PET, CBM-II, VC20, C64, Plus/4, C16
all incompatible to each other ... all just one shot "hit or miss"