Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!chiba!khb
From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architecture Wars, again; survey
Message-ID: <75575@sun.uucp>
Date: 1 Nov 88 05:35:48 GMT
References: <7316@winchester.mips.COM> <75478@sun.uucp>
Sender: news@sun.uucp
Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Lines: 27

In article <75478@sun.uucp> dre%ember@Sun.COM (David Emberson) writes:
>
>Gosh, there sure seems to be a lot of Sun and SPARC bashing going on in this
>group lately!  First I read how we don't care about performance, then I read
>that Mips has gone and talked everyone out of using SPARC and that we aren't
>a serious competitor to them anymore.  Pretty soon I suppose we'll just have
>to turn off the lights and go look for other--whoa!  What's this?  A 2:1
>stock split?  Big OEM orders from Fujitsu and Seiko?  Vendors rallying around
>ATT's System V.4?  #1 in the workstation business?  #1 in RISC units shipped?
>Are we talking about the same company?  :-)

Don't forget the ex-cray folks we licensed sparc to. They claim 4nsec
sparc by late '89 !

Before we turn out the lights, we probably should release a few more
products. Then maybe we won't get bashed for low performance.

Maybe we're just not cute anymore. Everyone loves kittens, but when
pussy grows up to be a tough tomcat..... :>


>
>			Dave Emberson (dre@sun.com)


Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus