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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: motorola/intel
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Date: 14 Sep 90 19:36:11 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from thamilton@ch3.intel.com

 
Intel chips are appreciated mostly in the "high-end"?
 
Well, where do you define the "high-end"?  High-end of the PC market
maybe...but up until more companies supplying RISC based systems, Motorolla
dominated the workstation market.  I've heard from UNIX users, and read in
more than one book or magazine, that Intel chips aren't really cut out for
UNIX based applications.  Up until the i860 (the only chip they produce that I
think is worth a ....), Intel chips weren't really suited for graphic based
applications.
 
Intel based systems with FPUs have good math performance, I'll grant them
that.  
 
Intel also has a problem with QC...
 
Sean
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