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- From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a victim.
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:42:56 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.205502.10918@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lindblad@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jarkko Lindblad) writes:
- >Marc N. Barrett (barrett@iastate.edu) wrote:
- >> In article <1992Dec31.191959.9373@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lindblad@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jarkko Lindblad) writes:
- >> >Marc N. Barrett (barrett@iastate.edu) wrote:
- >> >
- >I would never say that Intel is ahead of Motorola with their
- >CISC-line. Fastest 68040 is easilly a match for fastest 486. P5 may
- >give the lead to Intel if they manage to get it out before Moto is
- >ready with 060.
-
- Agreed here. The 486, other than being available at higher clock rates
- than the 040 currently is, isn't really a clearly superior chip. The
- Motorola instruction and register sets are still a bit nicer for the
- assembly language programmer to deal with.
-
- > The reason why Moto may even lose the CISC-wars is not because
- >they don't want to make fastest CISCs but because they can't afford to
- >invest as much as Intel on their CISC's (I'm pretty sure Intel makes
- >more money with CISCs thatn Moto even as they sell similar quantitys
- >of them as Intel does sell more 486's than Moto 040's).
-
- Actually, according to some statistics that I saw last summer, it looks
- like the x86 line outsells the 680x0 by about two to one. I think that
- this total includes non-Intel manufactured x86 knockoffs as well, though.
-
- >Jarkko Lindblad | sleep my friend and you will see
- >lindblad@cc.helsinki.fi | that dream is my reality
- >------------------------| they keep me locked up in this cage
- > - MetallicA - | can't they see it's why my brain say rage
-
-
- --
- Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) | Wishing I were an emaciated chihuahua.
- "I was wrong to play God. Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
- Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
- --- M. Burns "Treehouse of Horror II"
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