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From: dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: RISC, CISC, and MULTIPROCESSORS
Keywords: RISC,HAL
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Date: 10 May 91 23:36:02 GMT
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Instead of multiple 68040's or 88010's perhaps NeXT will/should go with 
HAL computers new cpus which are essentially next-generation of IBM's RIOS
stuff. These babies will apparently blow the doors off of anything out
there now (including HP's PA-RISC snakes) and Mips new stuff. This would
give NeXT 2 advantages

1) Finally shut the mouths of the industry pundits who ignore NeXT for not
   using RISC.

2) Give NeXT the performance to hammer Sun/Mips and the rest of the
   workstation bunch for a long time to come. They'd now have a screaming
   box with a state of the art environment and apps.

It would be way cool to just be able to slide one of these babies into a
slot on the ol cube and just leave the rest of the workstation vendors in
the dust. I'm sure Mr. Jobs would just love to have boxes that smoke the
current and next gen ones from Sun, DEC, Hp and IBM. He'd even be burying
Apple's RISC box before it left the starting gate.

NeXT boxes using this technology could just become the "high end" of NeXT's
product offerings in the $12k range...thought it would be nice to have this
kind of power in the $5k range eh?

David Williams