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- From: sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Are the Turbos CPU Upgradable?
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- Date: 28 Aug 92 11:33:58 GMT
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 28-Aug-92 Re: Are the
- Turbos CPU Upgr.. Alex Raftis@??? (1466)
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- > Tin Yau Fung writes
-
- > As a side note, can anyone verify the rumors that Moto will skip development of
- > the '050 and jump to the '060? I was told a short while back that the '050 was
- > to be a stepping point on the way to the '060, but because of pressure from
- > Intel with the P5 (aka '586) they decided to go directly to the '060 to remain
- > more competative.
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- Yes, it is true, Motorola's next 680x0 will be 68060 cause 68050 wouldn't
- have been powerful enough compared to 586 or SuperSPARC or R4000 or
- all the likes ! It was not intended to be Superscalar ! 68060 is going to be !
-
- > Alex
- > --
- > ______________________________________________________
- > Internet: alex@data.acs.calpoly.edu (NeXT mail)
- > alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu
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- Stefan Monnier
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