Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr7.041025.26542@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <#54G+r2i1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr06.042636.3533@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Apr6.075425.18800@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 04:10:25 GMT In article <1991Apr6.075425.18800@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: > Au contraire, I think the PC market is going to change a LOT more in > the next five years than it has in the past five. Consider, since > 1986 (5 years ago), not a single significant new architecture has come > to market You mean apart from the 80386 and the Acorn RISC machine? And the 80386 is really a new CPU that happens to have an 80286 tucked away in a corner. It has allowed all sorts of new things to get into the home market. > In the next 5 years (91-96), we're going to see new RISC > architectures from ARCA, pen-driven machines from Go et al, RS/6000 > systems coming down into the PC market from IBM, RISC machines and new > OSes from Apple etc... We'll see. RISC machines have been pretty cheap for a while, and PC clone manufacturers have started making SPARC boxes in the last year. What has this produced? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .