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Article #8Re: M68060 Update
From: Linus Upson
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:48
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:48
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I think its time we put Intel's record in perspective. Fade to Intel marketing meeting... I got a great idea! We'll disable a perfectly good FPU on our new processor and market it as EXPANDIBILITY BUILT IN! It's Brilliant! People will buy them by the truck-loads! [They did.] Then, I've got another great idea... When they want floating point, we'll just sell them the same chip again! (minus the brain damage) When they plug in the new chip, it'll just disable the old one! We can double the number of sales! End dream sequence. You gotta love these guys. If I were selling a hardware product, I'd want the Intel marketing dudes on my side. They have done a spectacular job of parlaying the public's computer ignorance into mega bucks. As things stand now, Intel puts out faster silicon faster than anyone else. When you have an instant market of tens of millions of salivating PC ignoramuses you can afford to. Next can't loose if they build a low end machine around the 486 or the P5 -- It'll have "Intel Inside!" Linus Upson lupson@geom.umn.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!news From: lupson@geom.umn.edu (Linus Upson) Subject: Re: M68060 Update Message-ID: <1992Oct27.164806.1688@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: descartes.geom.umn.edu Organization: University of Minnesota References: <1992Oct26.220702.2741@cubetech.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 16:48:06 GMT Lines: 23