Re: WWDTM for today round one

From: Tony Finch (dot@dotat.at)
Date: Sun Oct 22 2000 - 06:22:34 PDT

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Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>
>IBM Power4 ain't gonna go nowhere, because it's a monster. You sure
>many consumers afford a CPU which costs 2 k$? Multichip-module alone
>is a knockout factor. You can never push multichip module huge die new
>architecture upon the market and expect to succeed.

They're going to put the monster chip into their monster machines,
rather than market it directly against other CPUs.

>T9000 kept being delayed and delayed, the performance specs got lower
>and lower, and finally it died. RIP.

I was there at the time...

Tony.

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