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From: koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman)
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Subject: Re: RISC v. CISC (really comments on many postings: LONG)
Summary: don't forget the rest of the chips....
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Date: 27 Oct 88 16:34:43 GMT
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In article <468@oracle.UUCP>, csimmons@hqpyr1.oracle.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes:
> In article <6865@winchester.mips.COM> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
> >As you note, not-yet-announced.  On the other hand, MIPS R3000s
> >do 42K Dhrystones, and they're already in real machines, and vendors
> >are quoting the CPUs at $10/mip, i.e., $200 for 25MHz parts.

Hey, wait a minute.  You can't just spec the price of the CPU itself,
you need to include the cost of other required chips (like cache controllers,
MMU's, or whatever) when you say how much the CPU costs.  On some machines,
you can't run without these extra components.

  Phil Koopman                koopman@maxwell.ece.cmu.edu   Arpanet
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