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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 10:04:01 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: What's in a name? (cross-posted to SGI since mentioned)
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- In article ... glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
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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.
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- 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.
-
- Did the Archimedes come too late, then? ``MIPS for the masses'' was, I hear,
- the internal slogan of the ARM development team. [Of *course* I'm biased. We
- started at home on the Beeb and now run two Arcs. But at least one parent has
- become computerised on the basis of cast-off Beebs!]
- --
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- Regards, | ``In fingers of trees, and valleys of gold | Judy Tzuke
- Kers. | I watch as you outshine the charlatan foe.'' | Higher & Higher
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