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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <DOCONNOR.92Jul23085513@potato.sedona.intel.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:55:13 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.181618.18981@crd.ge.com> <1992Jul22.170228.424@darkcube.radig.de>
- Sender: news@inews.intel.com
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
- Lines: 34
- In-reply-to: vhs@darkcube.radig.de's message of 22 Jul 92 17:02:28 GMT
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- vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
- ] In article <> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- ] > In article <1992Jul20.092822.7666@spool.cs.wisc.edu>,
- ] mfrank@wilma.cs.wisc.edu (Matt Frank) writes:
- ] >
- ] > |> 1) Backwards compatability is a waste of everyones time.
- ] >
- ] > Fortunately for the vendors, consumers disagree with that statement.
- ] > In millions.
- ]
- ] You're right. Fortunately *for the vendors*.
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- Give me a break. Intel's employees would love to take off with a bold new
- architecture that would be the pinnacle of microprocessor performance,
- completely free of the baggage of the past.
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- It's the CUSTOMERS who INSIST on compatability. Customers also
- insist on performance. It's the hard-working X86 architects and
- engineers who have to suffer and jump through hoops to deliver both.
- I've got a lot of respect for those guys, and always have had.
- And it's a good thing process technology keeps improving.
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- Perhaps Volker Herminghaus-Shirai is smarter than all those customers :
- maybe his freely-given opinion is somehow more important than the
- "voting with their wallets" millions of PC buyers have done.
- But it's not important to Intel's bottom line.
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- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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