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To: Paul Engel who wrote (4455)	10/21/1996 1:21:00 PM
From: Mark Brophy	of 186894

Re: Other NT CPUs I think you guys are ignoring the relevant issues. <<we haven't even discussed the realtive costs of Intel CPUs vs. their competitors - such as Alpha. PowerPC, SPARC, etc.>> The relative production costs are Intel's competitive advantage. If Alpha costed the same as Pentium, Intel would be out of business tomorrow. The Alpha translator recently released by DEC doesn't emulate x86 code, except the first time you run an x86 app. That first time it translates the code to the Alpha instruction set and you run at full Alpha speed on subsequent runs. This approach has been successful before. Intel provided an 8085-8086 translator in 1976 that jump started the whole x86 revolution. If they hadn't done so, the technically superior 68000 would've been the dominant 16 bit CPU.

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