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- From: abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell)
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.205045.26293@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov05.200924.147058@lexmark.com> <1992Nov5.215430.15207@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Nov06.152200.170781@lexmark.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:50:45 GMT
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- songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
-
- > Intel's chips may be buggy, the instruction set may be ugly, but they
- > are fast for the price. The silicon eratta and non-orthogonal instruction
- > set would be dealt with by people at Next. The benefits would be
- > speed and price for the users. Sounds like a good choice if they've
- > got good people. (And they do.)
-
- Unfortunately, you can't just brush of an obnoxious architecture by saying
- "The compiler people will worry about this." Let's stay real, folks.
- Underlying models matter, and the Intel model is about as bad as they come.
- If this is what we have to live with, I suppose we'll manage somehow,
- but if you think it doesn't affect you, you're wrong.
-
- Steve abell@netcom.com
-