Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May10.013211.8931@NCoast.ORG> Date: 10 May 91 01:32:11 GMT References: <1991May3.200546.16303@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991May7.235145.12420@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 30 As quoted from <1991May7.235145.12420@sbcs.sunysb.edu> by dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio): +--------------- | In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: | >nExt doesn't make microprocessors they buy them from Motorola. You | >know, the company that makes the CPU for the Amiga. | | Oh, I thought the Amiga uses a 6502 chip. Are you sure Motorola makes 6502s? +--------------- ????????? +--------------- | >nExts will contain the nExt generation 88K. I'll leave it up to you | >to determine how good that chip will be. | | It's not whether the CHIP is good; it's whether the socket it plugs into | is good. I'll leave it up to you to determine what that means. +--------------- It's what on the *other* end of the secket, more precisely. In any case, Michael's crowing over the 88000 is proof that Next-oids think memory and disk are absolutely free.... ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery Ham: KB8JRR/AA 10m,6m,2m,220,440,1.2 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG (restricted HF at present) Delphi: ALLBERY AMPR: kb8jrr.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery KB8JRR @ WA8BXN.OH