Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!uunet!iWarp.intel.com!inews!jlitvin From: jlitvin@morticia.intel.com (John Litvin ~) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: IBM 6000 vs HP 9000 series 700 Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 18:12:32 GMT References: <1991Jun25.160925.53455@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1991Jun25.214124.29573@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1991Jun26.191020.26093@cs.utk.edu> <1145@hrshcx.csd.harris.com> <1991Jun27.194224.29879@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Distribution: comp Organization: Software Focus Group, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU's message of 27 Jun 91 19:42:24 GMT In article <1991Jun27.194224.29879@leland.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes: > This leads me to... a 40Mhz i860 offers 80 MFLOPs. Can IBM Austin > people design a addon board to utilize i860 for us? After all, IBM owns > part of Intel and if RISC 6000 lines are designed for technical users, I > would say the more MFLOPS the bigger your market share will be :-) Now this > is THE MOTIVATION for IBM :-) IBM owns no Intel stock. During the nasty years in the mid 80's, IBM did buy a chunk of Intel's stock (as a sort of loan to make sure that the 80386 would come out), but as soon as Intel started making money again, IBM sold all of the shares. John Litvin Intel Corp. jlitvin@morticia.intel.com