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- From: peer@ccrma.stanford.edu (Peer Landa)
- Subject: Define a new platform . .
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.165452.6070@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 16:54:52 GMT
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- Incidentally, while SGI now releases an 85 mips 16 mflop Indigo @ $12,000 --
- SGI's president & CEO Ed McCracken said this about NeXT's CEO Steve Jobs in
- MicroTimes July 6:
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- "The world doesn't have very many computer companies left that are defining
- platforms; really trying to figure out how people want to use computers and
- defining a platform of software and hardware to provide that. Silicon Graphics
- is one of them that are still doing that, and I admire the fact that Steve Jobs
- is also doing that. Steve is trying to define a new platform. So many companies
- today are just copying what other companies do, and cloning them. It's nice to
- see a company that's willing to do the hard work of really defining how people
- are going to use computers and trying to design a platform that fits their
- needs.
- Whether it does that or not is another story. Frankly we haven't focused on it
- a lot; we don't compete with NeXT a lot. We've been focused more on our own
- customers and how to serve their needs better. Again I think we're caught up
- there in the RISC vs. CISC wars -- we really believe in high-performance RISC
- processors, I think the NeXT machines tend to be very low-performance machines
- compared to what our customer want. But you admire the fact that he's doing
- some good stuff there, and it is a new kind of platform. It's through
- experimentation and new ideas that things happen."
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- -- peer
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