Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!elg
From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Marketing MIPS
Message-ID: <3280@killer.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 06:20:31 GMT
References: <1110@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Organization: Bayou Telecommunications
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in article <1110@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, leech@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) says:
> In article <9741@tekecs.TEK.COM> andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes:
> $	"the model number, as well as the "marketing mips" gets stamped
> $	on only at the end."
> $Strange.  Around here, the "marketing mips" get stamped on before the
> $engineering starts.
>     What happens when serendipity strikes and the real mips exceed
> the marketing claims? Are all your ads rewritten? (.5 :-)

I dunno about there, but around here, you'd hear:

"It's too fancy. It's too expensive. It exceeds specs. Make it 
cheaper and slower."

Most of the time, that's the right thing to do too, alas to we techweenies...
like somebody at Commodore said about a rumored 68020-based workstation, "who
would buy a $6,000 computer from Commodore?" (instead, they introduced a
lower-performance 68020 plug-in card for their $2,000 machine -- but that
doesn't rule out the workstation, of course, if they can ever find a marketing
niche for it).

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