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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Speed Kills (long)
Message-ID: <MN.3N44@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 12 Jun 90 13:01:31 GMT
References: <447@garth.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <447@garth.UUCP> fouts@bozeman.ingr.com (Martin Fouts) writes:
>    What architectures can be proposed now which:

>    1) are extensible in ways which allow high performance implementations
>       without loss of compatibility.

Well, the 68000 has already got 10 years of compatible implementations
under its belt, all the while being the second man on the totem pole. I
think 20 years not unreasonable.
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