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- From: renatob@fys.uio.no (Renato Bugge)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 17:20:35 GMT
- Organization: Center for Material Research
- Message-ID: <4cu853$5je@ratatosk.uio.no>
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- In article <4ctbjv$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.
-
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- The IBM AS/400 mini-machines uses 680X0 chips.
-
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- >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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- Personally, I hope we don't have to see Amiga's with this chip. PowerPC-
- chips are really not that fast.
-
-
- >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...
-
-
- It they want to go faster, then why don't they just make an Amiga with
- an Alpha 275MHz processor. It's fast (and expensive).
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