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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.023530.11426@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:35:30 GMT
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- In article <1gbh7hINNn7v@agate.berkeley.edu> nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver (The Weeniehead)) writes:
- >
- > Why do people make the assumption that NeXT will actually put out a
- >box based on the Intel chip? I doubt NeXT would make hardware that is in
-
- Because it would be the absolute stupidest thing NeXT
- could *possibly* do. While this logic might escape some,
- real NeXT users know that this is all a part of NeXT's
- secret plan to become the great domineering force of
- computing. Why, what else but devious planning could
- account for actually *raising* prices on machines that had been
- out (but not upgraded) for a year.. HMMMMMmmm.
-
-
- >machines in Freemont. The NeXTstep 486 will most likely be sold to those
- >who bought the wrong computer in the first place, or to clone-makers who
-
-
- Or to people bright enough to read the writing on Motorola's
- wall who decided to get a little something for their money.
-
-
- > Also, the r4000 is a nice chip, (64 bit processor and everthing,
- >although it's pinouts make it look like a real porcupine), but is SGI
- >letting it out? SGI owns Mips now, and so they effectively controll the
-
-
- I believe the R4000 is/is going to be available from at least
- three or four different vendors. I've never understood the
- arguments against the R4000.
-
-
- > Furthermore, is the Alpha available to other vendors? The same goes
-
-
- Anyone know--I'm curious about this one^
-
- >for the POWER chip. And, as for SPARC, NeXT would do better with the same
-
- ^ and this one.
-
- I didn't hear people making the same comments about the
- (obscenely late) 88110 (being single-vendor), so I can
- only assume it's SGIophobia.
-
-
- --
- Snout: O Bottom, thou art chang'd! What do I see on thee?
- Bottom: What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own, do you?
- ---"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they----
- ----aren't even superficial" --Nietzsche ---------------------
-