Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pioneer.arc.nasa.gov!eugene From: eugene@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Superoptimiser. Message-ID: <11359@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 6 Jul 88 17:30:55 GMT References: <28200172@urbsdc> <11458@steinmetz.ge.com> <1300@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Sender: usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov Reply-To: eugene@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Lines: 11 In article <1300@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center) writes: >In article <11458@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: >IBM allegedly lost money on each 91 and built them only to keep CDC >out of prestige accounts. Do you think it is any different today? Do you think IBM reads the comp.arch? [I don't, well maybe a few at ibmpa.. ;-)]. Only today it's not just CDC, it's all those little micro companies. Mainframe people seem really depressed of late. --enm