bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) (03/29/89)
Can anybody picture Theodore Roosavelt serving as Jimmy Carter's secretary of agriculture? How about Secretariat pulling a plough offon the south 40? How about the new Intel N-10 chip serving as a graphic co-processor to the 386? Funny thing is, this is exactly what we read from the INTEL- MicroSoft-IBM front; of course, it's driven by a totally accurate assessment of the possibilities of OS-2 ever running on the N-10... something like the chances of Hell freezing over or the sun coming up in the West Tommorrow morning. Such are the increasingly comical binds into which our industry leaders are painting themselves with their last-ditch, UNIX-envy-driven, efforts to avoid open systems. I, personally, would rather have a desktop machine with an N-10 chip running UNIX and a 386 as an interrupt processor. Ted Holden HTE ...................................................................... N-time loser dept: What do you call a pregnant nun typing up a Dukakis-Bentson sticker on a PC Junior running Display-Write under BS-2?.....
las) (03/31/89)
In article <229@imspw6.UUCP> bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) writes: [Somewhat ugly snarling on peripheral political issues, comments on absurdity of using Intel N-10 as graphic co-processor for 386, and interesting (and probably true) observation about "UNIX-envy-driven" efforts "to avoid open systems", including the observation that:] >I, personally, would >rather have a desktop machine with an N-10 chip running UNIX and a 386 >as an interrupt processor. The 386 is a poor choice as an interrupt processor (long interrupt latency). Use something nice-and-simple for interrupt processing. Z-80's maybe (Hey you in the back row!! Stop that gagging!). regards, Larry -- Signed: Larry A. Shurr (att!cbnews!cbema!las or osu-cis!apr!las) Clever signature, Wonderful wit, Outdo the others, Be a big hit! - Burma Shave (With apologies to the real thing. The above represents my views only.)