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- From: dfields@hydra.urbana.mcd.mot.com (David Fields)
- Subject: Re: The end of the MC680X0 UNIX era?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.015054.1806@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola, Inc. Computer Group
- References: <1993Jan12.053218.12579@tscs.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:50:54 GMT
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- I do NOT speak for Motorola!
-
- In article <1993Jan12.053218.12579@tscs.com>, gerard@tscs.com (Stephen M. Gerard) writes:
- |> There once was a time when if you wanted UNIX, you typically purchased
- |> a machine based upon a member of the Motorola MC680X0 family. Our
- |> first machine was a 68010, followed by a 68030, then with a 68040 which
- |> we still presently have. I have found all to be excellent processors
- |> and was looking forward to a 68060. I now have reason to believe that
- |> there will be no such beast. This certainly would be a great pity to
- |> see Intel survive and Motorola fail. A great pity indeed!
- |>
- |> The reason for my dismal expectations is that I hear that Motorola will
- |> not be releasing System V Release 4 for the 680X0 family. The only
- |> reasonable conclusion that this leaves is that there will be *NO* future
- |> processors in the 680X0 family and that Motorola has, at least internally,
- |> admitted defeat to Intel (yuch!), at least in CISC processors.
- |>
- |> Can anyone shed any light on this? Like I said earlier, I was looking
- |> forward to SVR4 and a 68060. I might consider switching to a 88K based
- |> platform if I felt assured that Motorola was not going to call it quits
- |> on these as well.
-
- Just because you hear that Motorola (and I assume you mean the Motorola
- Computer Group) isn't going to release SVR4 for the '060 doesn't mean
- that there won't be an '060 nor does it mean that there won't be SVR4
- ports which support the '060.
-
- Motorola is a very large corporation. Take a look at a quarterly report.
- The organization that productize the UNIX ports is the Computer Group (MCG)
- which is part of the General Systems Sector which includes the cellular phone
- business. The Memory and Microprocessor Techmology Group (MMTG) which
- produces the '060 is part of the Semicondoctor Product Sector.
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- Dave Fields Motorola Computer Group dfields@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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