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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Intel Microprocessors (fair benchmarking)
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Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 13:16:46 EDT
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In article <16481@toto.uucp> dbercel@sun.UUCP (Danielle Bercel, MIS Systems Programming) writes:
>Indeed, I recall reading an IBM report that said for every penny ($0.01)
>they spend on hardware R & D they had to spend 100M ($100,000,000.00) in
>software R & D.

Is this more misinformation from the woman who told us that Motorola
invented the 6502? Let's see, IBM is about $50 billion annual gross
revenue. If they spent it all on software R&D that would give a total
annual investment of $5 on hardware R&D. 

Yup, sounds like more misinformation. Danielle, you ought to get your
memory checked. 

-- 
I speak for myself, not the company.

Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com