From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Great marketing (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?) Date: 6 Oct 1992 15:24:45 GMT
In article <KETIL.92Oct1012409@spurv.ii.uib.no>, ketil@spurv.ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde) writes:
| Yes, yes, but be careful with what you're saying here. There can be
| no doubt that risc cpus beat cisc hands down nowadays. Never say
| never. But I agree that the 486 probably will be in use, say 5 to 10
| years from now. Hopefully without the atrocities of MS-DOS haunting it.
Yes, it's a pity that Intel never shipped the 586. It would have made
the RISC vs CISC comparison pretty interesting. However, they supposedly
will be shipping by 1994, in time to compete with the next generation of
RISC.
--
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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