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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
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Date: 22 Oct 90 00:52:11 GMT
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Motorola is claiming that their next generation 88K processor will
perform b/w 60 and 100mips when running at 25MHz.  I think that there
is a market for a chip like this.  Neither Apple or NeXT have chosen a
RISC for their next generation machines, and I think that they will,
considering the performance advantage of RISC.  Apple has sold 10
times as many machines as Sun.  If they go with the 88K, Motorola will
catch up fast in the RISC arena.

-Mike