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From: bobz@kirwaido.trystero.com
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 15 Dec 1994 16:36:29 GMT
Organization: ISV
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In <3cphs0$l6e@ddi2.digital.net>, hisself@digital.net (Jim Wallace) writes:
|Monty H. Brekke (brekke@dopey.me.iastate.edu) wrote:
|
|                         (much stuff deleted)  
|: few months, and was thinking of getting a Pentium. However, I have a
|: serious problem with Intel's current attitude and would really like to
|
|Ah ha, IBM's ploy is working.  I tend to think it is more the media's 
|version of Intel's attitude, rather than Intel's attitude.
|
|BTW, I have NO financial interest in Intel (damn it), I just think that 
|they are getting a raw deal.
|

Raw deal? Intel invested heavily in their campaign (Intel Inside)
to convince us of some extra value(s) of selecting Intel. We were
to expect reliability, performance and backing from the leader in
the field.

Then Intel is confronted with the conundrum of the Pentium FDIV 
problem. Rather than furthering their 'Intel Inside' image, Intel
rationalized that FDIV really wasn't that important to the 
majority of users and opted for the short term, least costly 
solution.

Having made that decision, they can only live with it. That Intel
views their customer base as relatively unsophisticated users and
apparently game oriented, sort of removes them from the serious 
application market. At least in my humble opinion. It may very 
well be that Intel has made a business decision in their favor.

But, I can't see how Intel based systems can be taken seriously
by the engineering and scientific communities from this point on.

An OS/2 'propeller head',
Bob
http://www.trystero.com/kiwaido.hmtl
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