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- From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: News Release - Pentium - "INTEL UNVEILS NAME FOR ITS FIFTH GENERATION COMPATIBLE MICROPROCESSOR"
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 14:14:14 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Nov4.235217.12383@engage.pko.dec.com> <GLEW.92Nov9230655@pdx007.intel.com> <1992Nov10.215647.15053@crd.ge.com>
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- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
-
- > What Intel marketing is doing is dangling the product just out of
- >reach to discourage major users from scraping DOS and Intel and going to
- >a reasonable workstation to get affordable performance. Just as IBM
-
- IMHO the sickest case of "dangling a nonexistent product" is Windows
- NT. It's how Microsoft manages to flog revenues out of the dead
- horses of DOS and Windows. Apparently even OS/2 is a "better OS" than
- Microsoft's offerings, whatever that means.
-
- > And when it comes out and vendors are charging $2k per chip because
- >everyone's on allocation Intel will promise to ramp up production, just
- >as they did with the 486. And just like the 486 the actual price drop
- >will come when AMD releases a faster cheaper 486, and not a moment
-
- Does anyone know more about how the new MicroSPARC CPU costs only
- $180 in 10k qtys? It features an incredibly high level of integration.
-
- Is it just a case of Intel being a stinking monopoly?
-
- -ans.
- --
- Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
-