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In article <1992Nov05.200924.147058@lexmark.com>, songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
>>This sucks for a few reasons:
> ...
>>3. The NRW will be AS FAST AS A HIGH-END CLONE.
> 
> Just as a passing question:
> 
> And how does the fastest machine in NeXT's lineup today compare with 
> a highend clone? (A: It's slower and more expensive.)
> 
> Next could do a heck of alot worse than commiting to Intel. Intel is
> doing a pretty good job keeping up with the Risc revolution. They seem
> to have about a year performance lag with the risc designs and this gap 
> has held for the past several years (unlike Moto who keeps falling
> further behind.) Plus: Intel has volume like no risc maker can hope to 
> achieve in the next several years. This makes for cheap silicon and
> that makes for cheaper machines.

I thought I'd heard somewhere that the microSPARC processor in the
new Sun Classics and LXs was much cheaper than even a 486 chip
(in quantity, of course).  Made by TI, which was an early believer
in the pricing curve, but then lost the memory/processor wars.

> 
> -Chris

John Neubert