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- From: djc@frieda.mitre.org (Daniel J. Coyne)
- Subject: Re: SunMicro?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.135716.1123@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:57:16 GMT
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- In article <25610009@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> edb@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Ed Beshore) writes:
- >I think there is a fundamental flaw looking at MIPS as a meaningful metric.
- >The fact is, over 90,000,000 PC users use Intel architecture only because
- >the useful applications run on it. 80% of those are completely satisfied
- >by the performance from a 25 Mhz 386. Cost of hardware, preservation of
- >investment and applications are the issues that make or break hardware
- >vendors in the volume markets. By any reasonable comparison, scientific/
- >workstations is niche compared to desktop.
-
- The problem is that a 25 Mhz 386 will collapse under
- the weight of NT. I personally believe that NT is
- just a joint Microsoft-Intel effort to obselete all
- 386 machines in one stroke and force users to buy
- 486 or higher machines. It seems like a good
- marketing strategy for Intel not Microsoft.
-
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- Dan Coyne -- The MITRE Corporation
- djc@mitre.org
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