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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter
  4. From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
  5. Subject: Re: RISC defined! Was Re: 486SLC chip.... what is it?
  6. Message-ID: <id.EGXV.KJ9@ferranti.com>
  7. Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
  8. References: <1992Dec9.230819.7876@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec11.155653.8469@ptdcs2.intel.com> <1992Dec13.150243.26083@eng.umd.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:19:48 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Dec13.150243.26083@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
  13. > Then how did Sun move from the Sun 3 to the Sparc?  The Sparc doesn't
  14. > run 680X0 stuff at all.
  15.  
  16. The Sparc is *significantly* faster, and the UNIX API isn't an ABI.
  17. -- 
  18. Peter da Silva                                            `-_-'
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