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- From: ttn@cs.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
- Date: 7 Nov 92 11:50:30
- Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
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- References: <1992Nov05.200924.147058@lexmark.com>
- <1992Nov5.215430.15207@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- <1992Nov06.152200.170781@lexmark.com>
- <1992Nov6.205045.26293@netcom.com>
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- In-reply-to: abell@netcom.com's message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:50:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.205045.26293@netcom.com> abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) writes:
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- Unfortunately, you can't just brush of an obnoxious architecture by saying
- "The compiler people will worry about this." Let's stay real, folks.
- Underlying models matter, and the Intel model is about as bad as they come.
- If this is what we have to live with, I suppose we'll manage somehow,
- but if you think it doesn't affect you, you're wrong.
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- Actually what do you mean by the intel model? And how is it inferior to
- Motorola 68k architecture?
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- Not by speed anyway.
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