Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!super!super.org!rminnich From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Is MIPS in Trouble? Keywords: MIPS, Trouble, DEC Message-ID: <36496@super.ORG> Date: 2 Nov 90 19:55:01 GMT References: <1098@dg.dg.com> Sender: news@super.ORG Reply-To: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) Organization: Supercomputing Research Center Lines: 23 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: |> > Dominic LaCava, [DEC] vice President: "MIPS is |> > not a big company and may not be able to move as fast |> > as we can." |> |> Very weird statement from a company that wouldn't exist if a bigger |> company (IBM) was able to move as fast as them. And given DEC's track |> record in recent years, I'd bet the other way. Yeah, but this obviously has nothing to do with MIPS being a little company or anything else. The only reasonable workstations dec has been able to build are based on the MIPS chips. So, what happens? MIPS arch. is eating VAX's lunch. What do you do, if you are the guy responsible for VAX/VMS? You kill the competition. Even if they work for your own company. This is an old story. ron -- "Socialism is the road from capitalism to communism, but we never promised to feed you on the way!"-- old Russian saying "Socialism is the torturous road from capitalism to capitalism" -- new Russian saying (Wash. Post 9/16)