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From: gwu@vlsi.cs.cmu.edu (George Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: chewing up mips with graphics
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Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 09:54:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 23 09:54:52 1987
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     I doubt a 100-fold increase in computing power would create an
over-capacity. If someone did come out with such a machine, he'd charge a
bundle and clean-up! Like today's supercomputers, or maybe more like the
supercomputers a few years ago, it'd be very expensive to get time on such
a machine, let alone purchase one. Access would be limited to a few customers,
those who really need the power and can afford to pay for it.

     Of course, if enough different vendors came out with such machines,
forcing the dollars per MIPs down, maybe there would be such excess capacity.

						George