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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple backs new company to produce RISC chip
Message-ID: <2384.2754de1c@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 28 Nov 90 21:08:27 GMT
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Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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I remember reading rumours in Computerworld last year (?) that Apple had
looked at the Motorola 88000 and decided it wasn't fast enough for them.

The rumours were saying that they were seriously considering the MIPS
chips.

I guess even MIPS aren't the hottest thing in town any more...

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