[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[nick at snowman.net]

You seem to have your priority list bit mixed up.  A true x86 manufacturer
cares about 1. Profit, 2. Marketing, 3. Profit, 4. Ability to screw the
customer while makeing aforementioned profit.
	Nick

On 8 Jan 2003, Dan Sikorski wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 21:58, Chris Byrne wrote:
> > Why don't we design our subsystems take on more of the subsidiary loads
> > of computing much in the way that mainframes do. Dedicated subsystems
> 
> If your posing this question with regard to PC's, my guess would be
> because that would cost money.  Priority 1: price. Priority 2: marketing
> Priority 3: performance.
> 
> 	-Dan Sikorski
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