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- From: neubert@cuphub.cup.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.155141.115@cuphub.cup.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:51:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.154050.23454@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Nov2.170741.2092@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Nov3.210551.13433@utstat.uucp> <1992Nov05.200924.147058@lexmark.com>
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- In article <1992Nov05.200924.147058@lexmark.com>, songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
- > eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
- >>This sucks for a few reasons:
- > ...
- >>3. The NRW will be AS FAST AS A HIGH-END CLONE.
- >
- > Just as a passing question:
- >
- > And how does the fastest machine in NeXT's lineup today compare with
- > a highend clone? (A: It's slower and more expensive.)
- >
- > Next could do a heck of alot worse than commiting to Intel. Intel is
- > doing a pretty good job keeping up with the Risc revolution. They seem
- > to have about a year performance lag with the risc designs and this gap
- > has held for the past several years (unlike Moto who keeps falling
- > further behind.) Plus: Intel has volume like no risc maker can hope to
- > achieve in the next several years. This makes for cheap silicon and
- > that makes for cheaper machines.
-
- I thought I'd heard somewhere that the microSPARC processor in the
- new Sun Classics and LXs was much cheaper than even a 486 chip
- (in quantity, of course). Made by TI, which was an early believer
- in the pricing curve, but then lost the memory/processor wars.
-
- >
- > -Chris
-
- John Neubert
-