Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why is the RT slow?
Message-ID: <1988Nov17.184341.8836@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5046@polya.Stanford.EDU> <cXU-XCy00V48ECDWt=@andrew.cmu.edu> <691@quintus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 88 18:43:41 GMT

In article <691@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>... My guess is that it was a marketing decision:
>IBM decided to scale the thing to what they thought people would buy
>and guessed wrong.

In a talk he gave here yesterday, John Mashey guessed that IBM expected
that caches would stay expensive and hence wouldn't be cost-effective.
Static RAM prices dropped and this turned out to be a mistake.
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