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From: d_alvear@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dom Alvear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT upgrades
Keywords: 88000
Message-ID: <7558@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 91 23:43:10 GMT
References: <1991Feb2.041933.3958@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Feb7.213305.26568@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Feb7.213305.26568@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>
>Now that the 68030 is obsolete, and the 68040 is about to be, but the
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why is it that everybody in the world thinks that a processor is
obsolete when it's successor is announced or becomes available???
I mean, come on, the 68040 is such an expensive chip that developing a
machine for it would be cost prohibitive.  And if the 68030 were truly
obsolete, then why are OTHER companies, i.e. NOT ATARI, still using
them?  (Apple, commodore, etc?)  Finally, sure there are newer
processors available, but have YOU, or anyone else for that matter,
completely exhausted the utility and power of the lowly 68000???
Realistically, the 68030 is still a powerful chip, and it really is
NOT obsolete.  It is older than the 68040, but it surely hasn't been
exhausted of its potential yet...

>68050 isn't even announced yet, how about a TT follow-on with an 88000?
>-- 
>vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
>ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder
>vsnyder@jato.uucp

Dom Alvear  (no .sig)

P.S.  On a completely unrelated note, how does one send an article to
the net without doing a followup.  My newsreader doesn't seem to have
a submit option...