From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: afn03257@freenet4.afn.org (Daniel P Hudson) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/04/21 Message-ID: <5jeh0n$7jg@huron.eel.ufl.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 236269266 References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5itlph$1k9@bcrkh13.bnr.ca><5iui29$iei@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <5ivtcu$puv@huron.eel.ufl.edu><5j1ann$f20@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <01bc4da9$75237100$f4f582c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> Organization: I hate green eggs and SPAM Reply-To: afn03257@stuff.afn.org "Dan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada NNTP-Posting-User: afn03257 Date: 1997-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Nick Roberts" wrote: >Daniel P Hudson wrote in article >There was another contender: the Zilog Z8000 (yes, with three noughts). >This was their 16-bit follow-up to their spectacularly successful Z80. It And what was its cost relation to the i8088? I'm asking because I don't ctually know about this one. I do know the one Kaz mentioned would have jacked the price of a PC up by about $300-$1000. >flopped. Not for technical reasons, but simply because the marketing muscle >of such a (relatively) small company couldn't compete. The _real_ reason If you have a product that is obviously technically superior or technically equivalent and cheaper, large corporations will gladly hear your plea.You just have to take the initiative to get off your ass and discuss it with them. >why IBM went for the Intel processor is because the No. 2 at IBM at the >time - the instigator of the PC project - was friends with the CEO of Intel >at the time (they were at college together). This is what is meant by "the >power of networking." You can believe what you want, but the pure and simple fact is in business, friendship means nothing, IBM went with the best deal, not with the closest friend. IBM might have been willing to pay a penny or two more per chip, but that wasn't the difference between Intel's and most of the other competitors. I have friends that own car dealers, but I don't buy from them because they don't offer me the best deal. Now having a friend at Intel may have gotten IBM the chips cheaper and thus both proffited, but price was the ultimate reason the Intel CPU's were chosen. That and the ease of which they fit into existing system designs [the i8088 that is, the i8086 had problems].