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Microsoft's internal memo: So Long, Intel (1992) [pdf]

• heyrikin 2y ago
  nice
• deleted 2y ago
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• SeanAnderson 2y ago
  Heh, I didn't read the whole thing, just the opening and closing paragraphs. I found this amusing: "Last year I started saying that within five years Intel would be out of the processor business. Afterwards I did wonder a bit about whether I was being too extreme, but those momentary waverings are now past" This remark was said in May of 1992. Intel's stock would go on to rise by over 4,000% over the next 8 years. :)
  • o11c 2y ago
    Other than that it was highly prescient though. I especially like the part where it predicts the failure of Itanium.
• metaphor 2y ago
  > Their [DEC's] software story is amazingly weak (except for the system written here by the guy they spurned!), and they may not be quick enough at delivering Alpha in hardware systems. The guy alluded to being Dave Cutler, and the system being Windows NT, presumably?
• quantified 2y ago
  > IBM is not dead yet, but they have been diagnosed as HIV positive and it is just a matter of time." Lol