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- From: ricardo@pencom.com (Ricardo Parada)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.232001.2952@pencom.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 23:20:01 GMT
- References: <1go1j6INN2dq@gap.caltech.edu>
- Sender: usenet@pencom.com (Usenet Pseudo User)
- Organization: Pencom Software
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- In article <1go1j6INN2dq@gap.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
- writes:
- >
- > >> But which chip they choose is very important and not an easy decision!
- >
- > Is it all that important? Especially considering the ease with which
- > applications are being ported to NeXTstep 486? And considering their
- > insanely-great production line that can be reprogrammed in no time?
- > There's no problem with coming out with a different processor every
- > year. Your distributed executables might start to get a little large,
- > but there would be some utility to keep only the part for your machine
- > so it wouldn't clog up your hard disk.
- >
- > Mark Adler
- > madler@cco.caltech.edu
-
- But if they choose a dead end microprocessor they'll have to support it
- forever. I guess as long as it is not the 88110. I can't believe what
- happened with the 88110, after getting all these rave reviews and technical
- excellence awards. I wonder if the Power chip will be as good!
-
- --
- + Ricardo J. Parada
-