Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!max!crisp From: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: <42488@mips.mips.COM> Date: 29 Oct 90 21:00:54 GMT References: <1536@ftc.framentec.fr> <1990Oct19.120218.9450@canterbury.ac.nz> <15497@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> Sender: news@mips.COM Reply-To: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 16 In article pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >In the latest issue of Byte I read that BIT have *dumped* the R6000 >development. Am I hallucinating? The justification given was that it is I also remember back in 1978 or 1979 that Byte stated that Motorola would offer a version of the 68000 that had the microcode in EPROM so that users could re-microprogram it for whatever instruction set they wanted! Caveat Emptor! -- Richard Crisp crisp@mips.com MIPS Computer Systems !decwrl!mips!crisp 928 Arques MS 2-02 (408) 524-8177 Sunnyvale, Ca 94086