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From: jackk@shasta.Stanford.EDU (jackk)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: R4000 "announcement"
Message-ID: <90@shasta.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 91 19:03:34 GMT
Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory
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I read in a recent EE Times article that there are no working chips
yet for the R4000. This type of pre-announcement is disturbingly
reminiscent of IBM's "pre-announcement" of the 360/95 before
there were even lab prototypes running. If I recall correctly,
some of their competitors took legal action against them. To this day,
such "pre-announcements" from IBM cause competitors to accuse them
of creating "fear, uncertainty, and doubt" in the marketplace to
freeze out competition, yet we hear no such accusations against
MIPS. Is it simply a matter of size ?