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- From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities)
- Subject: Re: PA RISC or Power PC?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.003645.27716@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Keywords: NeXT on a Sparc clone
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- Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Student Mail Machine
- References: <C124My.97y@world.std.com> <1k56b2INNjki@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 00:36:45 GMT
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- In article <1k56b2INNjki@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu writes:
- >In article <C124My.97y@world.std.com> kaya@world.std.com (Kaya Bekiroglu)
- >writes:
- >| In an effort to direct the subject from that *other* thread,
- >| what's up with NeXT RISC hardware?
- >|
- >| First it was the Moto 88110, it's a nice chip, but unfortunately
- >| dead. Then I heard that HP architecture would be coming into play.
- >|
- >| But, since they're now talking about liscensing NeXTSTEP to HP,
- >| PA RISC for NeXT's own hardware seems counterproductive.
- >|
- >| So NeXT is going with PowerPC? Is this chip line better than the
- >| 88k? I got the impression that it isn't, but I could be wrong.
- >|
- >| NeXT thing you know, NeXT will be talking with CompuAdd to get
- >| a SPARC clone.
- >|
- >| --
- >| Kaya Bekiroglu
- >| kaya@world.std.com
- >| [If you're looking for something witty and amusing here, then
- >| congratulations, you've just found it]
- >
- >Actually that's not a bad idea, given the fear and loathing between NeXT and
- >Sun proper :-).
- >--
- >Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
- >Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher
- >College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS
- > ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
-
- Our local Axil rep thinks that that fear and loathing could be another avenue
- for Axil to compete with Sun and further differentiate their product line.
- Every time he comes to visit my VAR he spends his working hours typing
- reports on the NeXTstation Turbo Color sitting by my desk; the
- SPARC-10 clone sits in the back, unused, gathering dust.
-
-
- --
- Yan Fang-Magnusson
- Ph.D. candidate, philosophy, University of Utah
- yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu
- yanfang@cc.utah.edu (NeXTmail)
-