24 Apr
2002
24 Apr
'02
11:23 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
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Sparcs, MIPS, but no Alphas...
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Peter Wallace
You are right about the Flops rating - that was only a bit higher than
Macs/PC's and well behind Sparc's, Alphas, etc. But Flops/dollar is not the
best metric of a general-purpose computer. If you think it is, buy yourself
a used (Sony) PS/2 and we'll all be happier. For many kinds of work,
developer time to a working solution is the dominant metric, and NeXT was
very near the good end of that scale.
Did they have Sparcs, Alphas, etc, in '89?