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From: joel@pandora.pa.dec.com (Joel McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 80X86 vs 680N0 and X
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Date: 23 Jul 89 23:27:01 GMT
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Personally, I think the MIPS RX000 architecture makes the best platform
for X.  Something about a short cycle time, pretty impressive compilers,
and a very nice set of sub-word manipulation instructions.

- Joel McCormack (decwrl!joel, joel@decwrl.dec.com)