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In article <N64B5=6@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <1991May03.182247.25757@kithrup.COM>, sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>> In article <009480D4.E6FADF40@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>> >I hate the marketing dweebs at Intel (yes, Intel) who started pushing this idea
>> >of making and selling castrated chips to capture market share.... 
>
>> And I hate the educational dweebs at UMD (yes, UMD) who started pushing this
>> idea that all things they dislike are evils started by Intel.
>
>Sure. Crippling a product and selling it for less has a long history. I
>remember a multi-thousand dollar upgrade for a Honeywell printer that 
>involved removing a PC card and flipping a switch. Intel is just the first
>chip manufacturer to get the sort of demand curve that lets them get away
>with this.

When you have a near-monopoly, you can afford to do this. Unfortunately, you're
not competing on technology, you're competing on a marketing gimmick and to
flog the competition.

While the ACE consortium is still forming up, I think the embracing of MIPS by
Compaq is a good thing and should give the Intel 80x86 series some legit
competition. 

(diverging thought...) My hat is off to Digital, however. In one fell swoop,
they turned half of ACE (the MIPS folks) into making DECstation clones.

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