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To: nihil who wrote (38068)10/4/1998 7:54:00 AM
From: Maxwell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572965
 
Nihil:

<<But good business! -- if you go for price/performance instead of quality on mission critical you end up dead. I take it that when you buy a car you go Jugo, and when you jet you Valujet. >>

I guess Xeon is a Valuejet and a Yugo then.

zdnet.com

"Intel recalls more than 1,000 chips from its major OEMs to add a new
stepping procedure to the chips that prevents servers from freezing up
when used in four-processor configurations. Intel grapples with how to
position the 400MHz version against the 450MHz version."

Maxwell



To: nihil who wrote (38068)10/4/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: Dr. Saeed Assadi  Respond to of 1572965
 
nihil,
Re-- "But good business! -- if you go for price/performance instead of quality on mission critical you end up dead. I take it that when you buy a car you go Jugo, and when you jet you Valujet."

Aren't both companies out of business? I drive an M3 and by law, I fly American. I agree with 100% reliability.
That is why people buy Sun and alpha workstations/servers.

sa