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- From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: A3000 local bus
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.104917.26602@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:49:17 GMT
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- In <ERICJ.92Sep11094228@manila.cfsat.Honeywell.COM> ericj@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Eric Jacobsen) writes:
- >*Nobody* makes PCs with 8086s anymore, and there are *very* few 80286
- >machines being made anymore. C= continues to crank out 68000 machines,
- >though...
-
- The 68000 isn't an 8086 either. It rather compares to a 286 and in the Amiga
- it is assisted by the graphics chipset. Most tasks that a home computer is
- used for require little CPU and the CPU eater called GUI makes use of the
- custom chips.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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