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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: 486SXs as Unix Iron?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.204936.9751@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <BwsHJr.LnJ@unix.amherst.edu> <id.BTJU.6P@ferranti.com> <1992Nov4.223834.9454@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <id.81RU.CTA@ferranti.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:49:36 GMT
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- In <id.81RU.CTA@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov4.223834.9454@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >> Yeah, but on this one I agree with him. The only way to keep
- >> companies from doing silly marketing cruft like this is if people let
- >> them eat all those chips.
-
- >Well, if you're independently wealthy and can afford to let politics guide
- >your decisions, more power to you. But at least let your politics be informed:
-
- Oh, they are.
-
- >> There was NO reason to come out with the
- >> 486SX other than to attempt predatory pricing on folks like AMD and
- >> Cyrix while keeping the price of the 486DX inflated.
-
- >If the 486 is so inflated, why haven't Cyrix or TI or someone come out
- >with an integrated FPU/CPU chip yet?
-
- Because initial cleanroom design, startup, masking, etc., are quite
- expensive? Because it has to have perfect compatibility with what
- Intel built in order to be meaningful in the market? Do you seriously
- think this ISN'T going to happen?
-
- Intel, on the other hand, started at the chip with the FPU and went
- backward.
-
- >> There is no way
- >> I'm going to believe that the price difference between the 486SX and
- >> the 486DX can be explained by the cost of testing the math unit in the
- >> latter.
-
- >The 486SX is a different die, cheaper process, cheaper packaging, and so
- >on. It's a cheaper chip all around.
-
- Is now; wasn't when they initially released it.
-
- >Keep your ire for the 487SX. There's plenty of real marketing bullshit to
- >get angry about to waste your time on the initial SX shipment (before they
- >got the cheaper FAB set up: no point in doing that if the chip wasn't going
- >to sell).
-
- All part of the same scam.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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