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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Sculley letter (was: Low Blow from Apple)
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Date: 25 Sep 90 03:53:08 GMT
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In article <13924@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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..

The CISC vs RISC battle has gone on for some time, and I think that RISC
has reached its peak.  Note that one recent chip seems to have broken this
trend.... the 68040 (well, maybe the Intel '486, but I try not to think about
Intel...)
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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