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- From: mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <MKAHN.92Jul22092527@hopi.sedona.intel.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:25:27 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mfrank@wilma.cs.wisc.edu's message of 20 Jul 92 09:28:22 GMT
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- mfrank@wilma.cs.wisc.edu (Matt Frank) writes:
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- ] >>>There'll be a 686 all right. It may look like the x86 architecture from the
- ] >>>outside, but on the inside ...
- ] [Lot's of stuff about whether the P5 is going to be performance competitive
- ] with RISC chips and whether PC-compatible owners are idiots or just ignorant]
- ]
- ] Backwards compatability has always been a particular pet peeve of mine, so I
- ] feel the need to add my two cents worth. I have two specific problems.
- ]
- ] 1) Backwards compatability is a waste of everyones time.
-
- Better tell that to DEC, IBM, MIPs, Motorola etc. as well as all the users
- in the world who do not want to buy new software every time they get a
- faster box. What color is the sky in your world?
-
- ]
- ] 2) Nobody ever uses the backwards compatable features anyway.
-
- You're right. I'm getting a new workstation this week and to celebrate
- I'm going out and buyin $10K worth of new (incompatible) software just
- because some technogeek decided incompatibility wasn't an issue. NOT
-
- ]
- ] Intel has done very well for itself making better/faster 8086's for the past
- ] 10+ years because they had a monopoly on chip designs that run MS-DOS. If
- ] Win/NT is successful they will need to compete against many other chip makers.
- ] If Intel designs an 80686 some day, Microsoft may port Win/NT to t
-
- Intel boxes will still be the cheapest MIPs on the planet. Who cares if
- a Crimson (or a Chartreuse) can run Windows. I'll get my P5 box for
- $5k which is about $10K cheaper than anyone else.
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- | Mitch Kahn | "I hope you know that this will go down on |
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