Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!adm!cmcl2!lanl!beta!egdorf From: egdorf@zaphod.lanl.gov (Skip Egdorf) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: P1754 Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 90 17:20:32 GMT References: <1990Nov16.225515.494@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 25 In-reply-to: roland@CS.Stanford.EDU's message of 20 Nov 90 00:08:21 GMT In article roland@CS.Stanford.EDU (Roland Conybeare) writes: > I believe Sun hopes to enlarge the market for SPARC machines by inviting > competition (this seems like an extraordinary action to me!). > > Roland Conybeare > roland@cs.Stanford.EDU I have heard S. McNealy state in public something to the effect of "Building workstations with the MC68k series, we ate our competition's lunch. We have no fear of doing so again with another architecture available to the public (SPARC)." I think that the point is well made and that Sun (for all its faults) is unique in the industry for such a long-term view. In that sense, it is "an extraordinary action!" I also believe that this is the proper way to ensure the domination of the SPARC architecture regardless of the technical quibbles voiced so often (and often correctly!) in this newsgroup. ...Says he, typing on the keyboard of his Solbourne 5/500... Skip Egdorf hwe@lanl.gov