Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!versatc!mips!mash
From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: E2000
Keywords: compatible, high-performance,E2000
Message-ID: <20804@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 31 May 89 20:50:05 GMT
References: <125@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <20752@winchester.mips.COM> <126@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
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In article <126@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> roelof@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Vuurboom) writes:
....
>I'm talking intuitively but I'ld say that these effects at least double 
>the effect of the longer lead time. In other words, an incompatible processor
>would have to offer at least 40-50% more performance for the same price before
>you even to start to think about a change over (in an environment like ours).

Our general rule-of-thumb is that:
	10% is uninteresting
	50% is interesting to lots of people, although not others
	100% is interesting enough to make people take serious risks
	1000% is uninteresting to some people (really!), i.e.
		compatibility is everything.
-- 
-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
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