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Article #4324Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:23
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:23
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In article <1992Dec11.180118.105908@lexmark.com> songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes: >Still, Intel drives volumes high enough that while their chips may not be >the fastest per transistor, they are often the fastest per dollar. Economy >of Scale is very important here. (Hence the reason NeXT didn't go with the >88k.) Next is not in the super fast workstation market -- they are in the >desktop market. They need a processor base that has a reasonable tradeoff >between speed and price. Motorola cannot not even keep up with Intel in terms >of chip speeds and Intel lags the Riscs by about a year. Intel processors really aren't that cheap until people start buying the evuivelent Cyrix or AMD clone... Plus, there are more important reasons to go with Pentium rather than another processor. andrew -- andrew@cubetech.com | "C++'s runtime sucks shit! Virtual functions Andrew Loewenstern | can go straight to hell!" - Ron Pomeroy Cube Technologies, Inc. | ForYourEyesOnly public key: 0000000701B61D1ADF0DFC9C16185CEA055200000007EB4A9FEB1922065D471A89E905B5
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!cubetech.com!imladris!andrew From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT. Message-ID: <1992Dec13.112302.25394@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <1992Dec10.090411.12142@ichips.intel.com> <1g7sq8INNggf@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Dec11.180118.105908@lexmark.com> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:23:02 GMT Lines: 20