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Article #2874Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Ivan Lima
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:23
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:23
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Charles Bouldin wrote: > > > Well, this is certainly the usual agrument. It might even be correct. But, > what if you have a "bad, inelegant, inefficient" design and then you make > and sell so many of them that economies of scale reduce the system price > to the same (or less) than the competing "good, elegant, efficient" > designs that sell in quantities 10 times less than the "bad" design. The > end price can come out the same, or almost the same despite the argument > about transistor count, etc. Agree 100%. When the firsts PowerPCs came out they said they were going to wipe out the Pentiums because they (PowerPCs) were "faster" and "cheaper". Look at the situation now. Intel is more dominant than ever. -- Ivan D. Lima Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu http://nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu/homepage/home.html
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu!usenet From: Ivan Lima <ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:23:21 -0500 Organization: University of Miami - RSMAS Message-ID: <30FD84E9.3F54BC7E@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu> References: <30F1D5A5.637A@medcor.mcgill.ca> <nelsoni.821198907@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> <30F35257.7DCC@medcor.mcgill.ca> <4d3fu9$2t2@eraserhead.jpl.nasa.gov> <bouldin-1101961343510001@charlesb.mnsinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386)