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From: George Lane <glane@qualcomm.com>
To: blaise@mrpitt.dti.com
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Subject: Re: PowerPCs and Lightwave?
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On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Blaise Fanning wrote:
> > > Whoa!!! There's nothing in the literature to suggest that the
> > > PowerPC will even get into the league of the Alpha 21164. If you've
> > > seen something I haven't, point me in that direction and I'll go
> > > design a module with a PowerPC on it.
> >
> > Then why not design a module with two PowerPCs on it?
>
> There are a couple simple reasons. Both of them involve lack of
> applications: PPC applications are scarce,
That is because many software vendors, like Newtek, are waiting for all the
other vendors to create the market. Noone wants to be first. It's the
chicken and egg syndrone. Alpha applications were scarce at one time as
well.
> multi-threaded PPC
> applications are pretty much non-existent.
Multi-threaded Windows NT applications in general (execpt some vapourware)
are pretty much non-existant. This is a Windows NT application issue, not
necessarily just PPC. There is nothing stopping one NT application from
being ported to PPC/NT.
> Right now the choice between 2 PPCs and 1 21164, given that both
> machines are similar in price, appears to be a no-brainer, but if
Why should it be given that both machines be similar in price? We are
looking for cost effective. BeBox has two PPCs in a machine.
> (B) ever changes, then we'll drop two PPC chips onto a module so
> fast it'll make your head spin (if you've got a fairly loosely
> connected head :0)).
Well if it wasn't connected well, I would have left it at home this morning.
At least that's what my wife thinks. :0)
As evidenced by this thread, some people think that PPCs are a cost
effective solution for animators, despite the fact that they are a
little slower than Alphas. We need fast, but not everyone needs the
fastest. For my needs right now, I don't need a 21164 machine.
A PowerStack would do me fine for a while.
George Lane
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