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- From: knauer@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase)
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1992Jul16.005016.25778@microsoft.com> <l6bu58INN4d1@spim.mips.com> <1992Jul17.220112.20995@microsoft.com> <1992Jul20.092822.7666@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <MKAHN.92Jul22092527@hopi.sedona.intel.com> <kitchel.711899554@moray>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:13:58 GMT
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- In <kitchel.711899554@moray> kitchel@moray.dpsi.com (Sidney W. Kitchel) writes:
- >mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (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.
-
- Perhaps by "MIPS" Mitch was referring to MS-DOS Instructions Per Second?
- That is after all what the majority of people seem to want. [1/2 :)]
-
- Of course, if P5 does turn out to be 100 MIPS, you might soon be able to get
- two boxes for $10K -- 100MIPS + 100MIPS = 200MIPS, right? (oops, wrong thread)
-
- Rob
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- Rob Knauerhase University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- knauer@cs.uiuc.edu Dept. of Computer Science, Gigabit Study Group
- knauer@knauer.intel.com Intel Multimedia Software Technology Group (summer)
- "There's no place like $FC58!"
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