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  1. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ftpbox!motsrd!white!sapphire.rtsg.mot.com!declrckd
  3. From: declrckd@rtsg.mot.com (Dan J. Declerck)
  4. Subject: Re: What's in a name?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul24.144812.11274@rtsg.mot.com>
  6. Sender: news@rtsg.mot.com
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: marble
  8. Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
  9. References: <1992Jul20.181618.18981@crd.ge.com> <1992Jul22.170228.424@darkcube.radig.de> <DOCONNOR.92Jul23085513@potato.sedona.intel.com>
  10. Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:48:12 GMT
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  12.  
  13. In article <DOCONNOR.92Jul23085513@potato.sedona.intel.com> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
  14. >
  15. >vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
  16. >] In article <> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM  (william E Davidsen) writes:
  17. >] > In article <1992Jul20.092822.7666@spool.cs.wisc.edu>,  
  18. >] mfrank@wilma.cs.wisc.edu (Matt Frank) writes:
  19. >] > 
  20. >] > |> 1)  Backwards compatability is a waste of everyones time.
  21. >] > 
  22. >] >   Fortunately for the vendors, consumers disagree with that statement.
  23. >] > In millions.
  24. >]
  25. >] You're right. Fortunately *for the vendors*.
  26. >
  27. >Give me a break. Intel's employees would love to take off with a bold new
  28. >architecture that would be the pinnacle of microprocessor performance,
  29. >completely free of the baggage of the past.
  30.  
  31. Isn't this what the 860 and 960 series is all about??
  32.  
  33.  
  34. >
  35.  
  36. -- 
  37. => Dan DeClerck                      |  EMAIL: dand@isdgsm.motgate.mot.com<=
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