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- From: gbs@kolob.mti.sgi.com (Greg Shippen)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: News Release - Pentium - "INTEL UNVEILS NAME FOR ITS FIFTH GENERATION COMPATIBLE MICROPROCESSOR"
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 01:38:03 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc.
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- References: <1992Nov4.235217.12383@engage.pko.dec.com> <GLEW.92Nov9230655@pdx007.intel.com> <1992Nov10.215647.15053@crd.ge.com> <1dpc7mINN1l5@almaak.usc.edu>
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- In article <1dpc7mINN1l5@almaak.usc.edu>, ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
- > 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.
- >
-
- Well, I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "dangling a nonexistant product".
- I have Windows NT running in Beta form on MIPS hardware on the screen next
- to the one I'm writing this on. It runs and it runs well. Anybody can buy
- the Beta version today for $69 by calling Microsoft.
-
- I'm not sure how you define nonexistence but I define it as:
-
- 1. I can't buy the software now.
-
- 2. If I can buy it, it won't run very long (if at all) on real
- hardware I can buy today.
-
- 3. I can't do real application development.
-
- None of these nonexistance clauses are true of NT...
-
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