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- From: dsiegel@optima.UUCP (David R Siegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <30451@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:37:30 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.162221.8282@crd.ge.com>
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- From article <1993Jan25.162221.8282@crd.ge.com>, by davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen):
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- > If the rumors coming out of Intel are correct, the FP performance will
- > be very good, perhaps SPECfp in the 50-70 range. Of course if the rumors
-
- /nod they're saying 80-100 MIPS
-
-
- > | As the world goes away from DOS to other choices the chip becomes less
- > | important. Even NT will (supposedly) run on other platforms. The <intent>
- > | if you remember, was to run on the MIPS R4000 (before MIPS got bought; who
- > | knows what SGI will do with this)
-
- > Have you heard anything to make you think this might change? I've read
- > stories of NT on R4000 and Alpha chips, so I assume the it's still going
- > that way.
-
- Both SGI and DEC have machines in the wings ready to go. They're still waiting
- for NT to be released, though... I don't know much about the architecture
- of the SGI other than it'll be running an R4000, but the DEC's alpha will be
- on an EISA bus.
-
-
- > this. The software is still considerably cheaper for PC base, and that
- > keeps system cost down.
-
- not to mention the fact that it's still cheaper to swap the 486 motherboard
- for a P5 than it is to go out and dump $5K min. for a SPARC 10.
-
-
- -dave
-
- Dave Siegel
- Comp Engr, UofA
- Unix Systems, BioTec
- President, RTD Systems and Networking, Inc.
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