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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
Message-ID: <301@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 25 Oct 90 13:42:25 GMT
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phys169@canterbury.ac.nz writes:
	...
>just too many companies doing workstations. I get the impression Sparcs are so
>far out in front that other chips, even if they're better, are close to doomed.

I'm pretty sure this is false for "other chips" *in general* - MIPS, in
particular, seems to be doing just fine, what with Sony and DEC and SGI
and so on - but I don't know about the 88000 itself.
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