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Article #3076Re: Evans and Sutherland quits the superbusiness
From: Eugene Brooks
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1989 20:29
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1989 20:29
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In article <27611@dhw68k.cts.com> stein@dhw68k.cts.com (Rick 'Transputer' Stein) writes: >The New York Times reported today that E&S is bowing out of the >superconfuser business. E&S did not see the Killer Micros coming. Any vendor who invested time and money in a "custom" CPU implementation over the past several years is getting eaten alive by the sudden onslaught of the Killer Micros. You can't sell an expensive slow computer in a competitive market. Its going to be a terrible year for vendors of custom architectures, new vendors will be completely flushed and old vendors will barely survive on the hysterisis of their existing customer base. Even the CEO of Cray Research mentioned the RISC microprocessors in the recent Supercomputing '89 conference in his keynote address. He referred to the performance increases of microprocessors as "astounding." brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!ames!sun-barr!lll-winken!vette!brooks From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Evans and Sutherland quits the superbusiness Message-ID: <38966@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 19 Nov 89 20:29:26 GMT References: <27611@dhw68k.cts.com> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Distribution: usa Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 18