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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: IIci 5/160 configuration
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Date: 10 Jun 91 15:48:13 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.231510.16985@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.054444.24285@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun8.080103.1106@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun8.080103.1106@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
>
>>Who knows? Has anyone read the story in Wall Street Journal about
>>Apple considering IBM's RISC processor for its future machine?
>>I hope Apple will make a technically reasonable
>>decision (as I believe they did in going for the Motorola
>>for the original Mac) if they are chosing a new CPU.
>> ...
>>As with CISC, there are some dud RISC architectures.
>
>  Like the SPARC for example.  I would be extremely surprised (and
>disappointed) if Apple went with SPARC.

As fore that matter, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Apple develops a new
RISC Architecture themselves for this new generation of Apple computers.
That would give them the ultimate controll over clones. ;-) And BTW, it is
called ARM - Apple Risc Machine ;-) (as for the rumours.)

O. (the mysterious ;-)

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