home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!matthias
- From: matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 16:38:18 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
- Lines: 16
- Message-ID: <1gqadqINN26v@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: hpmvd069.nsr.hp.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.2 PL7]
-
- With Windows NT coming out soon, and the huge marketing
- effort Microsoft is sure to put into it, is Intel worried?
- Win/NT will run DOS and Windows applications, and is
- currently being ported to Dec/Alpha, Intergraph/Clipper,
- and MIPS/R4000. If the os is actually well accepted,
- IBM/RS6000 and HP/PARISC won't be far behind.
-
- Will Intel still have any price/performance advantage?
- Price definitely for a while, but for any high-end
- application, the newer generation RISC architectures
- blow the old x86 chips out of the water. Are we
- seeing the beginning of the end of the Intel microprocessor
- monopoly?
-
- MK
-
-