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- From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: 68050
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.225031.25413@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:50:31 GMT
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- >> 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.
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- The RS6000 was here beginning of last year. Pentium isn't here yet, and
- won't be close to an RS6K when it arrives. Alpha isn't here yet. R4000 is
- here but all benchmarks I've seen put it at slower than an RS6K machine.
- Sure Motorola could design a new faster chip. Why waste another two years.
-
- Come, on, use some sense.
-
- Maynard Handley
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