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- From: glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew)
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
- In-Reply-To: vhs@darkcube.radig.de's message of 22 Jul 92 17:02:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <GLEW.92Jul23225243@pdx007.intel.com>
- Sender: news@ichips.intel.com (News Account)
- Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
- References: <1992Jul20.181618.18981@crd.ge.com> <1992Jul22.170228.424@darkcube.radig.de>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:52:43 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- > |> 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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-
- 12 years ago, my dream was to build cheap high performance RISC
- processors that brought really high performance computing power to the
- masses. My parents (non-computer nerds) in particular.
-
- Through all of those years, there was never built a cheap high
- performance computer system using a RISC that my parents would want to
- use. (Sure, I know about the BBC Micro - I mean *use*, not play
- with.) All of the RISC companies concentrated on high margin
- workstations that only companies and universities could purchase.
-
- In the meantime, the IBM PC and family kept delivering higher and
- higher performance, until somewhere between the i386 and i486 it
- crossed the useful threshold. And it was cheap!
-
- So now I'm building cheap high performance processors that bring
- really high performance computing power to the masses.
-
- Funny what the loss of one adjective can do.
-
-
-
- --
-
- Andy Glew, glew@ichips.intel.com
- Intel Corp., M/S JF1-19, 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy,
- Hillsboro, Oregon 97124-6497
-
- This is a private posting; it does not indicate opinions or positions
- of Intel Corp.
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