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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Low cost Macs and The Return of Timex (was Re: Murph's VAPORWARE )
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Date: 11 Sep 90 15:27:57 GMT
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rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes:


>Ah, I'd imagine it'd take a bit fewer than 200,000,000, for whatever RISC
>architecture he chooses.  If not, he should choose a different one. :-)

Actually since the article mentioned that it had downloadable micro-code,
wouldn't that meand that it would be neither RISC nor CISC, but something
new maybe.... ooohh I don't know... PISC? Programable blah blah blah?

I'll believe it when I see it. Maybe in another 10 years or so. But not today.

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