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To: Aaron Cooperband who wrote (4447)10/23/1996 6:33:00 PM
From: Steve Lahet   of 186894
 
> If there is no way for NT on a non-Intel box to run Intel-standard
> code without acting as a simulator for the Intel chip, then it seems
> that non-Intel standard chips should pose no competitive threat. I
> see little probability that any chip will be so fast that software
> running on that chip can effectively emulate Intel hardware at such
> a speed to make the non-Intel chip competitive. Do you agree?

Code can and is fairly easy to write which will compile for multiple operating systems. The advantage of writing to the NT standard is that there is a standard file system and screen i/o interface. So code written and compiled for Intel NT machines can be recompiled as is with a different compiler and be run on non-NT machines. The folks at places like TANDEM and DEC who want products to run on their machines give free compilers and hardware to product developers who will compile the code to run on their machines. So these other boxes are a competitive challenge to INTEL. The success of these non-Intel NT platforms is still open to question. Will the developers of the world even bother to recompile and QA their products for non-Intel NT platforms? Who knows, at this point I wouldn't unless a key customer asked me (read "paid me") to or I knew that lot's of folks were or will be running NT on these boxes. That's a lot to bet on. Quality techies are hard to hire these days, and don't come cheap.
So there is no technical limitation to performance of non-Intel NT platforms, just the "critical mass" inertia to overcome.
Steve
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