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- From: tempest@netins.net
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 21:39:01 GMT
- Organization: INS Information Services, Des Moines, IA USA
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- In article <4d0i33$1uo5@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, kraemer@clri6a.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
- >In article <4cu853$5je@ratatosk.uio.no>, renatob@fys.uio.no (Renato Bugge) writes:
- >> In article <4ctbjv$js6@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>, Iain Bennett <ijrb@bnr.ca> says:
- >> >
- >> >>I know.. there'll soon be a PPC, but..
- >> >>Too bad...
- >> >
- >> >The 680X0 line is a dying line anyway. The only computers that use
- >> >Motorolla 680X0 chips are the Amiga and Macintosh. Oh, some game
- >> >consoles use the 680X0 as well.
- >>
- >>
- >> The IBM AS/400 mini-machines uses 680X0 chips.
- >>
- >
- >Rubbish. The older ones use a propietary CPU. The newer ones use/will use
- >a multichip implementation of PowerPC.
-
- You seem to forget that processors are used in many more things than just
- computers alone... 680x0 are used in many devices.. not just computers.
-
- Doesn't matter so much though sine 060's are so fast and Amiga's will use
- Power PC's anyways.. I will never need the extra speed of the power pc
- chips however.
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