Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Why is the RT slow? Message-ID: <1988Nov17.184341.8836@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <5046@polya.Stanford.EDU> <691@quintus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 88 18:43:41 GMT In article <691@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >... My guess is that it was a marketing decision: >IBM decided to scale the thing to what they thought people would buy >and guessed wrong. In a talk he gave here yesterday, John Mashey guessed that IBM expected that caches would stay expensive and hence wouldn't be cost-effective. Static RAM prices dropped and this turned out to be a mistake. -- Sendmail is a bug, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology not a feature. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu