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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.112302.25394@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec10.090411.12142@ichips.intel.com> <1g7sq8INNggf@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Dec11.180118.105908@lexmark.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:23:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.180118.105908@lexmark.com> songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
- >Still, Intel drives volumes high enough that while their chips may not be
- >the fastest per transistor, they are often the fastest per dollar. Economy
- >of Scale is very important here. (Hence the reason NeXT didn't go with the
- >88k.) Next is not in the super fast workstation market -- they are in the
- >desktop market. They need a processor base that has a reasonable tradeoff
- >between speed and price. Motorola cannot not even keep up with Intel in terms
- >of chip speeds and Intel lags the Riscs by about a year.
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- Intel processors really aren't that cheap until people start buying
- the evuivelent Cyrix or AMD clone... Plus, there are more important
- reasons to go with Pentium rather than another processor.
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-
- andrew
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