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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: RISC Amiga
Keywords: well there's going to be a RISC Mac!!
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.192213.12708@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 90 19:22:13 GMT
References: <1156@iceman.jcu.oz> <22914@grebyn.com>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:

>In article <1156@iceman.jcu.oz> cpca@iceman.jcu.oz (C Adams) writes:
>>What about compatibility with existing software? 

>Forget about it.  RISC is a new architecture, a new instruction set, a
>new philosophy.

>On the other hand, the 68040 is as fast as current-generation RISC
>chips.  So why go RISC at all?

  Because next year's implementation of RISC (the 88110) will be about
two to three times faster than next year's implementation of the 68040
(even with the 040 running at 50MHz)
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