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- From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a victim.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.100728.6394@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 10:07:28 EST
- References: <C05vFC.IIv@news.iastate.edu> <1993Jan1.205502.10918@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <C072zK.6Ao@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Organization: Wright State University
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- In article <C072zK.6Ao@cs.mcgill.ca>, jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH) writes:
- > 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.
-
- It looks like the 680x0 lines future is becoming less and less
- certain all the time. Apple is probably going to start using the
- PowerPC chip for their products. HP and others have already
- dropped the 680x0 line. There are no personal computer or
- workstation makers that I know of that have expressed a firm
- commitment to moto, at least not like Intel in the PC-Clone world.
-
- Since Apple and Commodore are perceived as playing catch up with
- PC-Clones ( which is only true in some areas, they are clearly
- ahead in others, as we here know ), the availablilty of the '060
- months after the Pentium will be seen as a further lagging behind by
- Apple and Commodore.
-
- The Pentium seems like a little too much processor for the current
- PC-Clone architecture and MS-DOS to handle, IMHO. I mean having
- AT hardware compatibility.
-
-
- >
- >>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"
- Fred Heitkamp, ** Not an organization. My opinions only **
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