Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!emory!wuarchive!rex!ukma!uflorida!travis!tom From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k Subject: Re: 88k Macintoshes? / New 88k family member Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 11:01:20 GMT References: <1990Oct22.021837.26420@dg-rtp.dg.com> <42311@mips.mips.COM> Sender: news@travis.csd.harris.com Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division Lines: 27 In-reply-to: mash@mips.COM's message of 23 Oct 90 03:13:57 GMT >"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." To my mind, the real question is: "Will the 88k based Apple product (if it ever arrives) be 88open compliant?". I am not making any accusations (yet :-), but it would be just like Apple to produce an 88k box and then screw around with the software architecture so you couldn't possibly run anything but Apple software on it. If they don't follow the 88open standards, I think the entire 88k community should stand ready to pelt Apple with rotten tomatoes lobbed from a great height. The best feature of the 88k is the 88open standards which have already produced the first family of Unix boxes from wildly different vendors which can all run the same shrink wrapped software. If Apple bucks this trend they really will be dooming the 88k to oblivion. -- ====================================================================== domain: tahorsley@csd.harris.com USMail: Tom Horsley uucp: ...!uunet!hcx1!tahorsley 511 Kingbird Circle Delray Beach, FL 33444 +==== Censorship is the only form of Obscenity ======================+ | (Wait, I forgot government tobacco subsidies...) | +====================================================================+