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- From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.141438.57474@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 20:14:38 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.092822.7666@spool.cs.wisc.edu>> <MKAHN.92Jul22092527@hopi.sedona.intel.com> <kitchel.711899554@moray> <14116@borg.cs.unc.edu>
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- In article <kitchel.711899554@moray> kitchel@moray.dpsi.com (Sidney W. Kitchel) writes:
- (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.
-
- Actually, the _cheapest_ MIPS on the planet are the old used ones that
- no one wants anymore. I picked up a 4MHz NorthStar for $5, making $5/peak MIPS.
- Then there's the 11/23+ that mysteriously showed up on my porch the other
- day for free...
-
- Roger Ivie
- ivie@cc.usu.edu
-