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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: More P5 Speculation...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.153353.24327@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:33:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.173724.14764@pony.Ingres.COM>, thall@Ingres.COM (Trevor Hall) writes:
- | According to today's San Jose Mercury News it looks like we're going to
- | get another quarter's worth of speculation on the P5 (where do you get
- | your information, John Mashey?). So I thought I'd start another round by
- | referring everyone to the cover of the July 6 issue of EE Times.
-
- Intel taking a page out of IBM's book. The P5 is the big stuck to keep
- people from going to other vendors. What this means is that people who
- intended to go with P5 for top of the line can now buy whatever systems
- they want, secure that Intel can't deliver more performance in a
- reasonable timeframe.
-
- I tend to believe the rumors of big trouble making the chip. Why else
- announce a super low price to keep people interested, and then delay
- introduction? Lots of business customers on a yearly budget have been
- saving their money to buy 586 machines before year end. Now that they're
- not coming, other machines are being scheduled instead, and Intel has
- lot one year market share of the kinds of users who buy top of the line
- machines.
-
- Maybe now we can move discussion of the P5 to comp.folklore.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-