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Article #2827Re: Fed up with MIPS
From: gillies
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 04:34
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 04:34
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I am sick and tired of hearing comparisons with the auto industry. CARS PCs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lifespan prop. to miles prop. to age, independent of on-time Failure almost total failure almost never fails totally Mode at 100-140K miles wears very unevenly; most parts (most types of cars) have longer life expectancy than wears evenly a car's. Wear points engine/body/brakes/ Hard Disk/Keyboard/Power Supply tires/interior Cost of fuel increasing constant Source of Mostly Custom Mostly standard/commodity parts Parts (Hardware) Custom (Software)...but software doesn't wear out! Repair off-market 5 yrs off-market X yrs parts after last model after last model from company X from ALL companies, but plug-compatible replacement parts may still be available later. Reason to age; safety Envy of another system's software/speed junk increases; risk of AND no upgrade path (3rd-party vendors driving somewhere often provide upgrades for popular without spare parts "ophan" machiens (XT;Mac128K;Lisa))
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Fed up with MIPS Message-ID: <3300078@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 25 Oct 89 04:34:00 GMT References: <76700077@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:p.cs.uiuc.edu:76700077:m.cs.uiuc.edu:3300078:000:1114 Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Oct 24 23:34:00 1989