Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!gwu From: gwu@clyde.ATT.COM (George Wu) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Why build TF-1 if you have its uniprocessor chips? Summary: How about marketing? Keywords: TF-1 Message-ID: <24493@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Apr 88 16:56:24 GMT References: <12176@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar11.215238.976@utzoo.uucp> <11437@duke.cs.duke.edu> <4297@hoptoad.uucp> <30@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> Reply-To: gwu@clyde.UUCP (George Wu) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 19 How about a marketing answer instead of all the technical replies people have been posting? Packaging single-processor workstations means competing with Sun, Apollo, DEC, IBM, and the rest of the world. And since all those guys already have a big jump, plus lotsa bucks to throw into research, it makes things that much more competative. And just maybe, the workstation market is starting to saturate. I for one don't think there will be quite so many makers of workstations further down the road. On the other hand, who out there commercially builds massively parallel machines? Obviously, there's the Connection Machine. I'm sure there are more, thought they just don't pop into my mind, but the competition just isn't as fierce. -- George J Wu UUCP: {ihnp4,ulysses,cbosgd,allegra}!clyde!gwu ARPA: gwu%clyde.att.com@rutgers.edu or gwu@faraday.ece.cmu.edu