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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Subject: Re: New RISC chip?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.115521.3737@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov6.112552.21376@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1992Nov6.121324.21742@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 11:55:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.121324.21742@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> nhaldar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Neil A Haldar) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.112552.21376@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Al
- >exander Swietlicki) writes:
- >> I picked up a copy of Byte today, and aside from a mediocre
- >>review of NeXT (no fair, they placed a mono classic slab against machines
- >>priced in the $10-$36,000 range and complained), there was a blurb about
- >>some new RISC chip: the IMS3250 which is supposed to run at 100 Mhz, 90 Mips,
- >>and be able to emulate both a 486@25Mhz and a 68040@30Mhz. Here's the
- >>kicker: it's supposed to cost between $50 and $60 in production quantities.
- >>Wonder what effect this'll have on the industry? Heheh...imagine: NeXTSTEP
- >>and NeXTSTEP486 on the same box. :)
- >
- >Umm... this ISN'T the same chip going in the PowerPC/Pink thingy between
- >Apple/IBM, right? I can see the 486 emulation, but for the 68040 emulation...
- >wow...
- >
- >I'd gander that the methods of memory allocation and caching are completely
- >different between the Intel and Motorola lines, and I can't believe that
- >someone's solved that problem at that low a price...
-
- Yeah, someone mentioned this to me at the last hAng meeting. Now, I'm
- no processor architecture wiz, but it sounds like complete B.S. to me.
-
-
- andrew
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