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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.223541.18927@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:35:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.010845.25121@fasttech.com> <1992Nov16.123221.9069@qb.rhein-main.de>
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- In article <1992Nov16.123221.9069@qb.rhein-main.de>, vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
-
- | > I'd like to hear from RISC architects and implementers on this topic. Given
- | > all the touted advantages of RISC, why aren't they blowing Intel away?
- |
- | Too many computer-illiterates getting caught by M$'s and intel's
- | marketing hype.
-
- How about this: people are buying the hardware which runs the software
- they want to use, and which is cost effective. In the real world the
- cost of solution of a problem is the issue. As long as vendors insist on
- packaging a product at $399 for DOS and $7000 for workstations the high
- end will stay with Intel for many problems (unless you need a LOT of
- power).
-
- Just because people don't do what you think they should doesn't mean
- they're confused, it may mean you don't understand their problem. If the
- software I need to run will run on an Intel machine (or perhaps only an
- Intel machine), if I didn't go with Intel I wouldn't just be "computer
- illeterate," I'd be stupid.
-
- Of course Intel may have opened the door by not shipping the P5 when
- they said they would. Not only are lots of people unhappy because they
- now have to use another vendor to get the performance they need, but
- software has been ported from DOS to other systems because there was
- (and is) no faster chip.
-
- I think Godot would have been a better name for the P5 then Pentium,
- but by 1995 production quantities should be available.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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