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- From: cullip@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Timothy Cullip)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <14116@borg.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:16:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.092822.7666@spool.cs.wisc.edu>> <MKAHN.92Jul22092527@hopi.sedona.intel.com> <kitchel.711899554@moray>
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- Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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- In article <kitchel.711899554@moray> kitchel@moray.dpsi.com (Sidney W. Kitchel) writes:
- >mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn) writes:
- >
- >>Intel boxes will still be the cheapest MIPs on the planet.
- >
- > WRONGO!!!! As of now, the cheapest MIPS on the planet come
- >from MasPar Computer Corp. The MasPar MP-1 offers them at $50 / MIPS.
- >You should ask Intel when you are going to get a 200 MIPS box for
- >$10,000.
-
- 200 MPIS for $10,000, no not yet (in one box), but Intel based PC clones
- are closing in on 20 Mips for $1000 (a cheap stripped down 486 no name clone).
-
- Not that I like Intel (or the ubiquitous PC), but they are real close to
- the $50/MIP level.
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- Tim Cullip
- cullip@cs.unc.edu
-