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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development.
Message-ID: <17561@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:39:37 GMT
References: <41220@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <187e4f65.ARN097c@easy.hiam> <1991Jan09.153108.17485@convex.com>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jan09.153108.17485@convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:

>IBM has always been capable of producing a really nice PC; they just haven't
>been willing.  When the SPARC came out IBM responded with the RS6000.  Now
>they are their own worst competitor.  Their troubles are probably not at an
>end.

Though maybe that helps explain RS6000 performance.  Its a real screamer if
you're a single user with one big task doing Workstation type floating point
operations.  If you try to load it down with lots of heavy task work and more
users, you might as well get the couple of PC Class machines you can buy with
the same money and let each of them do 1/2 the work.  Thus, the RS6000 is
forced to stay as a workstation and no do mini or mainframe type work at all
well.

>--Steve   ._||__      DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own.
>  Warren   v\ *|     ----------------------------------------------

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