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From: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Multi-processor i860 board
Message-ID: <745@sky.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 90 18:37:45 GMT
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In article <39034@ut-emx.uucp> amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul) writes:
>Since I live just a few miles away from the Motorola plant here in austin, I
>have talked to several people from the company. They say that the new version
>of the 88000 is due to be releaced mid 1991. They say that it will beat the 
>i860 for speed in every catagory.       
> 
Mebbe.  Of course, Intel's successor to the I860 should be out sometime 
around then, so I wouldn't bet the farm based on any speed
claims from Moto right now.  When either company can actually *ship* 
some of these things, then valid arguments of performance can be made. 
Sorry to waste c.s.a bandwidth with this....we now return you to your 
regularly scheduled flame wars.. :-)

 -Brian

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