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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: New Moto chips (was Will NeXT survive?)
Message-ID: <1991May03.182247.25757@kithrup.COM>
Date: 3 May 91 18:22:47 GMT
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In article <009480D4.E6FADF40@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>I hate the marketing dweebs at Intel (yes, Intel) who started pushing this idea
>of making and selling castrated chips to capture market share.... 

And I hate the educational dweebs at UMD (yes, UMD) who started pushing this
idea that all things they dislike are evils started by Intel.

>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.

Obviously, there would *never* be any embedded applications currently using
an 8086 or 68k which could use faster processors.  I mean, if they don't
need virtual memory, then they really don't need to run at faster than
4.77MHz, right?

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.