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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!nhaldar
  3. From: nhaldar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Neil A Haldar)
  4. Subject: Re: New RISC chip?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov6.121324.21742@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
  6. Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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  8. Organization: The Ohio State University
  9. References: <1992Nov6.112552.21376@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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  11. Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:13:24 GMT
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  13.  
  14. In article <1992Nov6.112552.21376@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Al
  15. exander Swietlicki) writes:
  16. >    I picked up a copy of Byte today, and aside from a mediocre
  17. >review of NeXT (no fair, they placed a mono classic slab against machines
  18. >priced in the $10-$36,000 range and complained), there was a blurb about
  19. >some new RISC chip: the IMS3250 which is supposed to run at 100 Mhz, 90 Mips,
  20. >and be able to emulate both a 486@25Mhz and a 68040@30Mhz.  Here's the
  21. >kicker: it's supposed to cost between $50 and $60 in production quantities.
  22. >Wonder what effect this'll have on the industry?  Heheh...imagine: NeXTSTEP
  23. >and NeXTSTEP486 on the same box.  :)
  24.  
  25. Umm... this ISN'T the same chip going in the PowerPC/Pink thingy between 
  26. Apple/IBM, right?  I can see the 486 emulation, but for the 68040 emulation... 
  27. wow...
  28.  
  29. I'd gander that the methods of memory allocation and caching are completely 
  30. different between the Intel and Motorola lines, and I can't believe that 
  31. someone's solved that problem at that low a price...
  32.  
  33. Gotta run out and find that issue of Byte!
  34.  
  35. -Neil
  36. *>  Neil Haldar                                                              <*
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  41. *>  Neil Haldar                                                              <*
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