tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) (01/01/90)
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.