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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple backs new company to produce RISC chip
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.082602.4115@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Nov 90 08:26:02 GMT
References: <1990Nov28.195451.7400@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:

>Larry Tesler, an Apple vice president, said in a statement "We believe that the
>technology represents an important trend for the 1990's."  He did not indicate
>how Apple might use the chip.

>Apple's involvement could be read as a blow to Motorola Inc, which has 
>supplied the central microprocessor for the company's computers..."

  In the San Jose Mercury, Tesler is quoted as saying something to the
effect that the decision to invest in Acorn has no relevance to what
microprocessors Apple will use in future machines...

  And we keep reading news of Apple's search for 88K engineers to work
on the RISC-based Macintosh...  makes one wonder.   Perhaps the Acorn
chips will be used in graphics coprocessors (a la Radius).

(Then there is the issue of the NYT's accuracy... in their article on
Motorola's first volume shipments of the 68040, they mentioned how
"Motorola currently does not make RISC chips" :-)  )

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