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From: rice@dg-rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: 88k Macintoshes? / New 88k family member
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Date: 22 Oct 90 02:18:37 GMT
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I've typed in a few interesting excerpts from an article
in the October 15, 1990, "Computerworld."

"RISC-based Macs said to be on Apple's drawing board"

"Apple Computer, Inc. is reportedly working to integrate
Motorola, Inc.'s reduced instruction set computing (RISC)
microprocessor technology inti its popular Macintosh 
personal computer line by as early as next year."

[...]

"The move could be advantageous to both firms.  Motorola...
has so far stalled in drumming up widespread interest
in its current RISC offering, the 88000 [i.e., the big
boys use something else --BR].  Apple, meanwhile, is
feeling the heat from workstation makers such as Sun
Microsystems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Digital
Equipment Corp. [the aforementioned big boys --BR], 
which already use RISC technology and have targeted
the price of their machines at the heart of the Macintosh
line.

"At last week's Microprocessor Forum technical conference
in Burlingame, Calif., Motorola described plans to introduce
a second-generation RISC chip, due out next year.  Dubbed
the 88110, the microprocessor is expected to...combine
the CPU, cache memory and memory management sections on
a single chip."

End of excerpts.  It's a pretty non-technical news article;
its other salient points are the performance projections
for the new-generation 88k (50-85 MIPS) and a remark about
the fact that 88k Mac software would not be binary-compatible
with previous software.

Disclaimer: Just because I found this article interesting
doesn't mean my employer did, God bless 'em.
--
Brian Rice   rice@dg-rtp.dg.com   +1 919 248-6328
DG/UX Product Assurance Engineering
Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, N.C.