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From: bcc@Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT upgrades
Keywords: 88000
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.153854.24877@Eyring.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 91 15:38:54 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.213305.26568@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <16037@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Feb8.010109.396@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Feb8.010109.396@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>The 68030 and 68040 are obsolete because:
[several arguments deleted]
>6.  Motorola has several REAL customers for 88xxx: Data General, Tektronix,
>    Sequent, Opus, and, of course, Motorola.                     ^^^^^^^^^
                                    ^^^^^^^^
I think it`s funny that you should propose this as an argument against the
68040 -- the 88000 is better than the 680x0 because Motorola backs the 88000?
I think that Motorola makes lots of boards for the 680x0 as well!  Also, didn't
I see recently that Tektronix decided there was no future in the 88000 for them
and they decided to get out?  They closed down a division or something?  Going
by usenet alone, the 68k traffic has been higher than the 88k traffic for
some time now.  (P.S., I like both chips, but I doubt that the 88K will ever
make the 68K go away ... and I don't think Motorola wants it to.)

Most of the 88K boards I have seen used a 68K to handle the I/O anyway; the
interrupt handling destroys the advantages of pipelining and caching.