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Article #11454Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times?
From: Larry McVoy
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 02:11
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 02:11
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umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: > A MIPS rep today told me to expect ACE machines (the compaq/microsoft etc > group) at $2K to $5K in Q2 92.Of course these will be no cache except the 8K+8K > on the R4000, and crippled in various other ways to be as cheap as possible, > but will presumably still be far above PC/Mac/Amiga performance. I don't normally get into this sort of thing and probably shouldn't now, but I find this statement a little hard to stomach. Are R4000's even taped out yet? Maybe I missed something, but I thought that the R4000 was a future chip. Let's suppose that I could get one in my grubby little paws today. I still have to build a motherboard, a case, all that glob. Call it 9 months of a very agressive schedule. I still have to have an OS that runs on the thing. Call it another 9 months on an extremely aggresive schedule. Q2 '92? I suppose it could happen. I'll be very impressed. --- Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems (415) 336-7627 ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!jethro!exodus!appserv!slovax.Eng.Sun.COM!lm From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times? Message-ID: <576@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 10 May 91 02:11:25 GMT References: <1991Apr30.191117.4373@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: news@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA. Lines: 20