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- From: Iain Bennett <ijrb@bnr.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 09:13:35 GMT
- Organization: NORTEL - Magellan Business Networks
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- >I know.. there'll soon be a PPC, but..
- >Too bad...
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- 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 other market for the 680X0 is in telephone switching equipment of a
- few years ago. Unfortunatly the product line I work for (Magellan) use
- intel i960s because of their RISC architecture.
-
- Yes PowerPC is coming... to a certain extent. Apple has had some
- problems recently with Motorolla and IBM. I don't know what to expect
- of this.
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- Maybe Amiga Technologies should still have a look at using HP, DEC or
- possibly ARM. Then again, Amiga Tech could join Apple and benefit from
- helping to design PowerPC chips...
-
- Interesting...
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