mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (09/22/89)
>A little extra complexity in the CPU will not increase the overall >system cost by 60%. However, the 60% increase in performance over >competitors (who went the software route), will allow a 60% premium >in the price of my machines, and its all gravy. Really? Are people that buy business computers so stupid that they can't tell that two machines run 60% diferent just because one left out $100 worth of gates? Around here somebody trying that would get laughed out of the water. The value of a machine is proportional to how much it costs to MAKE, not how fast it will run. That is why I paid $5000 for the machine I am writing this now, rather than $1,000,000 for a 1960's IBM mainframe that would do less. Doug McDonald gee, 1000:1 is a big ratio - I am impressed, Intel!