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From: leconte@irisa.fr (Thierry Leconte)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Moto 88110 ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.085025.3176@irisa.fr>
Date: 14 Jun 91 08:50:25 GMT
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From article <0094A113.42199340@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>, by sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney):
> I came across an InfoWorld blurb about a NeXT(tm) box based around the Motorola
> 88110. It would (allegedly) pull 50-60 MIPS (ie: 3 times faster than the
> 68040 currently used) and has enough stuff thrown in on the chip which would
> allow them to bundle in functions like image compression on-the-fly, rather
> than using Yet More chips and an Intel i860 for image processing. 
> 
> I wonder what this is going to do to the Moto CISC line if one of their
> major customers (NeXT) goes Moto RISC plus another (Apple) is thinking about
> it.  

Is Next a "major customer" of 680xx ?
I don't think they sell so MANY Next to be really a "major customer"

Am I wrong ? , have you any numbers ?

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