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From: tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Marketing: The Final Frontier
Message-ID: <12780020@acf4.NYU.EDU>
Date: 1 Jan 90 06:50:00 GMT
Organization: New York University
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Sadly none of the KMfH based systems I have had pitched at me have good
characteristics for our costing timeline and normal machine lifespan
(3, 10 years resp.) I have not seen one offering Good I/O, Good CPU, at
least low order flexible multiprocessors, and an UPGRADE POLICY that
recognizes the lifespan of the cpu chip/boards [recently implied to be
order of ONE year on the market, which is not inconsistant with my
observations of CISC chipwork]

Of course one sells to the speed freaks first but if any company could
package a machine like that it should win big.  As a long time DEC fan
I am saddened not to see them produce an R6000 family based system with
the platform style multiprocessing and upgrade path.