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Article #962Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
From: Steven T. Abell
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 20:50
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 20:50
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songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes: > Intel's chips may be buggy, the instruction set may be ugly, but they > are fast for the price. The silicon eratta and non-orthogonal instruction > set would be dealt with by people at Next. The benefits would be > speed and price for the users. Sounds like a good choice if they've > got good people. (And they do.) Unfortunately, you can't just brush of an obnoxious architecture by saying "The compiler people will worry about this." Let's stay real, folks. Underlying models matter, and the Intel model is about as bad as they come. If this is what we have to live with, I suppose we'll manage somehow, but if you think it doesn't affect you, you're wrong. Steve abell@netcom.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!iscnvx!netcomsv!netcom.com!abell From: abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise Message-ID: <1992Nov6.205045.26293@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Nov05.200924.147058@lexmark.com> <1992Nov5.215430.15207@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Nov06.152200.170781@lexmark.com> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:50:45 GMT Lines: 15