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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 05:02:30 +0000
Subject: Re: Ultra AXmp
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>    Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:21:14 -0700 (PDT)
>    From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
> 
>    Yes, but at the high end costs of CPUs are irrelevant since it
>    usually becomes storage and network infrastructure costs that
>    predominate.
> 
> This argument sounds %100 logical and correct.
> 
> But then why doesn't Intel just cause 4 way SMP machines to cost $20k
> just like Sun?
> 

Good question, although the answer may be "Intel is not in
the system's business".