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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Sculley letter (was: Low Blow from Apple)
Message-ID: <13924@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Sep 90 05:12:13 GMT
References: <794@mtune.ATT.COM>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <794@mtune.ATT.COM> rkh@mtune.att.com (Robert Halloran) writes:
>If Apple were to announce a RISC box in October, then say that existing
>Mac owners could get a board for it to run Mac Plus programs (NO color,
>etc), how would the Mac community feel?

Note that this is in fact a plausible scenario, although not in the
October 1990 time frame.  The 68xxx architecture is nearly maxed out
at this stage.  Note that Sun Microsystems Inc. shifted their future
from 68xxx to SPARC (a RISC architecture) some time ago, similarly
for Silicon Graphics Inc. (68xxx -> MIPS), and even Digital
Equipment Corp. is moving in the RISC direction for workstations.
I detect a trend here..