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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1gqadqINN26v@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:55:57 GMT
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- In <1gqadqINN26v@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Why would someone with one of those processors want to run NT? I'd
- much rather run the SGI UNIX/X stuff on an Indigo than run NT.
-
- >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?
-
- Only if you think people are going to dump UNIX and flock to NT. They
- aren't.
-
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