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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM Workstations (really, IBM Marketing)
Summary: Here's the original
Message-ID: <1260@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 12:46:03 GMT
References: <16190@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <4424@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <1989Oct19.023316.7433@ico.isc.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1989Oct19.023316.7433@ico.isc.com>, rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

|  Bill, your points are good...but note that the article which started this
|  off (in _EE_Times_) contained only a vague speculation about price, no real
|  performance information (no clock or cycle times, no benchmarks), and a
|  delivery date given only as "early 1990".

Here is the information I was quoting, I note that delivery information
is not mentioned, but price performance is. I didn't see _EE_Times_ but
I believe that they gave little info.

}For example, I was recently down to IBM's Advanced Workstation
}Division Austin center for a full briefing about the new IBM RISC
}line.  I've seen and touched the boxes; I've heard concrete
}architecture, price and performance information.  I definitely have
}enough information to make a wait/buy decision.  (No comment on the
}decision; I'm under non-disclosure :)

It's a pain to try and find a middle ground between surprise
anouncements and vaporware. I wouldn't base any decision on what I read
in those papers, other than to look into the product myself.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon