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In article <915@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Henry was noodging DEC for only selling packaged systems while MIPS
>would sell chips, boards, or systems.

It is unfortunate that DEC only sells it's systems under it's own
name, their folly, I guess.

>This is an utterly reasonable idea.  Consider how much pain would have
>been saved had Motorola sold Suns rather than their odd, slow Versados
>systems.
>How many people ever want to see an Intel Development System again?

Unfortunately, consider how little support Motorola would have recieved
had competitors been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements.

>[Of course you need to create the tools needed for cross-development,
>but OEM hardware and software, as a base to build development systems
>on, seems to follow the leading edge a lot closer than chip-mfrs'
>hardware and software.]

The main difference between a "chip maker" and a "system maker" is that
the "chip maker" is out to sell "chips".  To do this they need to provide
enough support to make implement systems around their chips as non-restrictive
as possible.

>I'm curious why MIPS hasn't made this rumor public knowledge.  Perhaps
>Plexus is not selling the system through its own sales offices yet?

Probably because they don't want to end up with Plexus as their only
customer.