From: papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 02:06:58 GMT
In article <1rctq0INNqku@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>If that's your bet then you'd probably lose. The Pentium costs around
>$1000 in quantity, the Alpha costs about the same. R4000 chips are much
>cheaper, ($400?).
The question is what will they cost in a year and a half when Intel has
Cyrix, AMD and who knows who else breathing down their necks with dirt
cheap 486 clones? Intel HAS to price the Pentium high because they'll
get undercut by clones a few years from now.
>The Pentium is pretty much as far as you can push in the 80x86
>architecture.
Right.
>(you probably won't see 66 MHz Pentium chips this year), the pipeling must be
>hell to do with so few general purpose registers and unorthogonal
>instruction set, if Intel was smart they'd start with a clean slate on
>the Hexium (Sexium?), but knowing Intel this probably won't happen.
I've seen 66Mhz Petiums.