Commodore has its feelers out for a new general manager after the shock resignation of Howard Stanworth.

Stanworth parted company with Commodore under amicable circumstances, Commodore says. But his resignation followed hard on the heels of the 50 per cent price cut to the Plus/1, which is understood to have put the cat among the pigeons throughout the Commodore hierarchy.

Officially Stanworth presented the price cut as an opportunist response to market conditions (i.e. Acorn's difficulties) but it was widely interpreted as indicating that the days of the Plus/4 itself were numbered, thanks to lack of interest from software suppliers.