Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Subject: Re: The 68050 - end of the 680x0? (was Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1991Jun11.044921.18015@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA References: <5110@orbit.cts.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 04:49:21 GMT Lines: 31 chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes: >I hardly think that any of Motorola's MAJOR players are telling them they will >swith to 88000's... Since i would imagine that Amiga/Mac/Atari/NeXT/etc.. are ^^^^ Take NeXT out of here and put it in the Unix workstation group. >the bread and butter of the 68XXX line.. Yes, these machines are the bread and butter, and I think they'll continue to sell a LOT of low-end 680x0 CPUs for this market [e.g. I can see a 68050 Mac lasting until 1996 without too many problems]. But, I'm talking about the high-end. What incentive is there for Motorola to produce a 68060 if all their high-end users [such as NeXT, HP, and you could say Apple] have switched to another processor family? Maybe Motorola will do it for Commodore and Atari if they haven't switched by then [or at least convinced everyone that their 80586 machines are really far better than the Amiga or ST - yuck, what a horrible thought]. >with the Unix stations pulling up >after most of those.. just how many 68XXX base Unix Stations are being sold >these days? not many. Not many, but these are the machines which are using up all the high-end 68040's. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be? You'd be in the hospital, or in-firm-ary..." F. Dagg