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From: quirk@dg-rtp.dg.com (Peter Quirk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
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Date: 30 Oct 90 19:45:19 GMT
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The 88K is not going away. In fact, Motorola has announced (leaked?)
news of the 88110
recently and published a broad brush roadmap for the 88K cpu for the
next ten years.
They predict they will be delivering 400 MIPS on a CMOS chip before the
end of the decade.
Almost as interesting was the announcement of the 88300 - a combination
of the 88110 and
68030 I/O for embedded controller applications. All those 68030-based
controllers will
start screaming when fitted with an 88300. 
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