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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: New Moto chips (was Will NeXT survive?)
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Date: 3 May 91 17:40:44 GMT
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In article <14720@encore.Encore.COM>, jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) writes:
>Harumph...the latest chip announcements from Motorola include (more or less):
>
>- a 68040 with the MMU and FPU disabled
>- a 68030 with the MMU disabled
>- cheaper/faster/better 68020s and 68000s (no FPU or MMU to disable)
>
>What's the price of the cheapest Moto chip to include an MMU (68030)?

I hate the marketing dweebs at Intel (yes, Intel) who started pushing this idea
of making and selling castrated chips to capture market share.... I suppose
if you want your toaster to be binary-compatible with your Mac, it's a
wonderful idea, but somehow my skin crawls at this bastardization of technology
on the basis of a marketing decision.

Of course, Intel is the Great Satan in all of this, having started up the
'386SX to go head-to-head with the AMD et al '286 clones, thereby killing
anything less than a '386SX (this might be construed as a Good Thing, because
the '286 was screwed up to being with), and the '486SX to compete with the AMD
'386 real-deal clones. 



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