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In article <3411@spim.mips.COM> zalman@mips.com (Zalman Stern) writes:

>>Let's suppose that I could get one [R4000] 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.
>
>An appropriate word for companies which don't aggressively pipeline this
>process in the 90's is "roadkill." You can simulate all this stuff without
>working chips. Here's a quote from HP's "CMOS PA-RISC Processor for a New
>Family of Workstations", Mark Forsyth et al. (this years ISSCC
>proceedings):

I think you are both on the wrong track.  The reason that the ACE time-
table is unrealistic is software.  Microsoft started started on OS/2 5
years ago and the system has only been really ready for a year.  They
announced DOS5.0 (right after Digital Research did their DRDOS5) about
a year ago and we haven't seen it yet (and this is DOS !!).  SysVr4
has been out for a while yet but almost nobody has it working on machines
yet, and these machines are known quantities.  I think that it will be late
1993 before you see OS/2 NT running on r4000's and late 1992 for ACE to have
any machines on the proverbial shelves.

Can anyone even name an OS that was completed on time?



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David Boles                                       Applied Research Laboratories
dboles@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu                        DOS is severely brain-damaged,
apas611@chpc.utexas.edu                   so just pull the plug and let it DIE.
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