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- From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
- Subject: Re: 68050
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.210703.3371@ichips.intel.com>
- Originator: tmcconne@sedona
- Sender: tmcconne@sedona (Tom McConnell~)
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- References: <D2150056.ht9uln@erics.infoserv.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:07:03 GMT
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- In article <D2150056.ht9uln@erics.infoserv.com>, erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith) writes:
- >
- > Joe_D._Ciarcia@fourd.com writes:
- >
- > > I'm not
- > > saying that IBM PC's are fast ..... but the PC's are Personal Computers
- > > targeted towards home users .... the PC's use Intel chips (laugh laugh .... um
- > > no offense). I was talking about speed in the sense of IBM RISC based
- > > workstations that use IBM RISC chips. Get the idea??? Joe C.
- >
- > And the R4000 or the Alpha aren't fast? The Intel P5 and P6 won't be
- > fast? Motorola couldn't come out with another generation of chips that
- > are as fast as the IBM RISC chips?
- >
- > The reason that Apple has an alliance with IBM now has to do with corporate
- > alliances and shrinking market share for both companies, not with IBM's
- > technical expertise.
- >
- If I recall, part of the Apple-IBM alliance is to create an operating system,
- Taligent, that is architecture-independent. I'm guessing, but I would think the
- first Taligent ports would be to the Pentium (Intel's P5) and the next
- generation IBM RISC chip, which is being fabbed by Motorola.
-
- If you look at some of the Intel based computers that are available, the range
- in computing power goes from a i386SL based handheld to the i860 based Paragon
- supercomputer. There are i486 (soon to be Pentium) based "PC"'s running Unix
- that are being used as workstations. Eric is right though, there is lots of
- really fast silicon available. The term "PC" doesn't mean what it used to.
-
- Just my $.02 worth :)
-
- Cheers,
-
- Tom McConnell
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