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- From: raob@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (r. oxbrow)
- Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
- Message-ID: <9300216.26878@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne
- References: <D2150035.lqbfh6@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <ewright.725666626@convex.convex.com> <1993Jan2.032807.17994@msc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:45:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.032807.17994@msc.cornell.edu> maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
- >In article <ewright.725666626@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com
- >(Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >>In <D2150035.lqbfh6@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael
- >>Peirce) writes:
- >>
- >>>My friends at DEC tell me there was one overriding reason that Alpha
- >>>wasn't picked over PowerPC: Politics. The technological considerations
- >>>were a distant second.
- >>
- >>"Losing bidder charges 'politics.'"
- >>
- >>Not exactly what I'd call a newsflash. :-)
- >
- >Many months ago, when Alpha was first discussed to death in comp.arch, DEC
- >said over and over that Alpha was designed on a "speed at any cost"
- >strategy. This may make sense for a chip that's to appear in $10K
- >workstations, but Apple is targeting the $1K price bracket, and would have
- >been rather silly to choose the somewhat faster but vastly more expensive
- >chip.
-
- Don't get the current Alpha implementation mixed up with the Alpha design
- specifications. DEC just like Sun can easily produce a low-cost version of
- the Alpha design, all be it with lower performance.
-
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