Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The 68050 - end of the 680x0? (was Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <22371@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 12 Jun 91 19:59:49 GMT References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> < <1308@cbmger.UUCP> <28@ryptyde.UUCP> > <01dH!cmr@cs.psu.edu> <1991Jun10.072945.8821@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1338@cbmger.UUCP> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 20 In article <1338@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: >In article <1991Jun10.072945.8821@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >> What do you think? Will the 68050 be the last high-end member of >>the 680x0 line? >No, I think the 68060 will be the end of the line. Why? Because there >already is a 68070 existing (a 68010 plus some peripheral built in, >made by Philips in license) :-) Don't count on it. Signetics calling their part "68070" isn't far from some Amiga 3rd party calling their A500 add-on gizmo "A4000". Motorola and Commodore, respectively, have no particular need to avoid those names if they find them useful. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "This is my mistake. Let me make it good." -R.E.M.