🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Bwtos4.px@iat.holonet.net> bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
>In the benchmarking publication by AIM for testing speed/prices of unix
>boxes, it shows that for machines that cost over 50,000 dollars and up to
>2,000,000 dollars (including EVERY point in between those two prices)...
>
>The fastest machines, per dollar of money spent, all had groups of
>Motorola 88100's in them. You heard me the Motorola chip. Not Alphas, Not
>HPA, not MIPS R4000, not 68040s, not INTEL chips, nor AMD or any other
>company including any machines based on the SPARC, nor even the Intel i860.
>
>THE FASTESTS MACHINES IN THE WORLD FROM 50,000 to 2,000,000 HAVE ALWAYS
>BEEN MOTOROLA 88100 FITTED MACHINES!
>
>
>This is of course, based on a publication that only includes listings of
>benchmarks by companies that pay to get benchmarked, and may not include
>all technologies.
>
>It was a recent issue.
>
>
>Long live the 88100.... Wicked Fast.

I am not flaming the 88k because it's not a good processor from a
technical standpoint.  It's a hell of a chip.

Furthermore, NeXT does not want to make a $50,000 workstation or a
$2,000,000 black box from hell (but it would be fun to play with ;-).


andrew
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