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- From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.032807.17994@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <D2150035.lqbfh6@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <ewright.725666626@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:28:07 GMT
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- In article <ewright.725666626@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com
- (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <D2150035.lqbfh6@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael
- >Peirce) writes:
- >
- >>My friends at DEC tell me there was one overriding reason that Alpha
- >>wasn't picked over PowerPC: Politics. The technological considerations
- >>were a distant second.
- >
- >"Losing bidder charges 'politics.'"
- >
- >Not exactly what I'd call a newsflash. :-)
-
- Many months ago, when Alpha was first discussed to death in comp.arch, DEC
- said over and over that Alpha was designed on a "speed at any cost"
- strategy. This may make sense for a chip that's to appear in $10K
- workstations, but Apple is targeting the $1K price bracket, and would have
- been rather silly to choose the somewhat faster but vastly more expensive
- chip.
-
- Maynard Handley
-