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Article #2873Re: Re: Trends (was Re: Fed up with MIPS)
From: Steve Ritacco
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 16:58
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 16:58
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The point in time when performance will no longer be an issue, is when there is sufficient performance to execute advanced software for any given task. For the secratary with an XT and WordPerfect, OK, but is that configuration providing him/her with the highest level of productivity? Would a nice interactive display oriented environment let her do a better job? We need to drive the cost/mips rate down, so that things like animated 3-D graphics are reasonable on a machine for a secratary, because we can provide him/her with a better user interface! This is what we are driving for!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!decwrl!hplabs!hp-ses!hpdml93!sritacco From: sritacco@hpdml93.HP.COM (Steve Ritacco) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Re: Trends (was Re: Fed up with MIPS) Message-ID: <280002@hpdml93.HP.COM> Date: 27 Oct 89 16:58:53 GMT References: <318@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID Lines: 12