[CCTALK] Re: First SGI Workstations? unix on 68k / mips

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Fri May 17 14:41:31 2002

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:

> Nope. 68K then (briefly, thank God) i386, then SPARC.

I read somewhere, once, that between m68k and SPARC, Sun was on a bad part
of the price-performance curve and desperate to keep a couple of big
customers happy until SPARC was ready. The article suggested that the 386i
was mostly a touchy-feely for the NYSE wonks.

Anybody have anything to add to this story?

ok
r.
Received on Fri May 17 2002 - 14:41:31 BST