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- From: peter@progress.COM (Peter Sorrentino)
- Subject: Re: SunMicro?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.181318.24332@progress.com>
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- References: <ljf0e3INN1kl@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <25610009@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> <1992Dec24.135716.1123@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:13:18 GMT
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- djc@frieda.mitre.org (Daniel J. Coyne) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- NT runs on MIPS, and DEC's Alpha. Take that Intel. On the
- other hand DOS and Windows generally only run on Intel. I think
- Microsoft knows exactly what they are doing, good luck to Intel.
- By the time NT is widely used I think Intel will not be selling
- 386's and probably not 486's. NT will take time, and by then the
- 586(P5,Pentium) will be the Intel 386 chip of today. Buy Microsoft.
-
- >--
- > Dan Coyne -- The MITRE Corporation
- > djc@mitre.org
-