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From: eric@gang.UUCP (Eric Kiebler)
Newsgroups: net.arch,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: pyramid architectural restraints
Message-ID: <122@gang.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 23:14:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 30 23:14:15 1984
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[Nuke the smurfs]

Since when does having nice hardware and well though-out software
make any difference?  People have been buying machines with horrible
software and lousy architectures for years, and continue to do so.
In fact, I heard a rumor that "they" are producing a particular
horrible machine with a lousy architecture at the rate of 1 every
16 seconds.  As long as lousy hardware and horrible software get
the job done, however, people are happy.  Inertia is a wonderful/bad
thing.  Until machines are sufficiently sophisticated that increasing
performance is *not* an issue, people will tweak and prod and make
trade-offs that are not in their best long-term interest.

Meanwhile, we all push our hair out in little gray bunches...

eric
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