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Article #2303Re: Fast conversions, another urban myt
From: mcdonald
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1989 13:22
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1989 13:22
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>A little extra complexity in the CPU will not increase the overall >system cost by 60%. However, the 60% increase in performance over >competitors (who went the software route), will allow a 60% premium >in the price of my machines, and its all gravy. Really? Are people that buy business computers so stupid that they can't tell that two machines run 60% diferent just because one left out $100 worth of gates? Around here somebody trying that would get laughed out of the water. The value of a machine is proportional to how much it costs to MAKE, not how fast it will run. That is why I paid $5000 for the machine I am writing this now, rather than $1,000,000 for a 1960's IBM mainframe that would do less. Doug McDonald gee, 1000:1 is a big ratio - I am impressed, Intel!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!tank!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Fast conversions, another urban myt Message-ID: <46500080@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 22 Sep 89 13:22:00 GMT References: <832@dms.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:dms.UUCP:832:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:46500080:000:781 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald Sep 22 08:22:00 1989