Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Motorola 88K Machine? Message-ID: <1991Jun12.072755.11505@kithrup.COM> Date: 12 Jun 91 07:27:55 GMT References: <1991Jun12.031302.13645@leland.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 19 In article crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes: >I personally hope that NeXT adds operating system software support for >high-performance processors like the 88110 ("Hurricane") while >retaining an assumption that the main processor continues to be a >Motorola 68k processor (or at least, with the assumption that a 68k >processor is always somehow available to execute old applications and >so current NeXTstations won't be obsolete soon). If NeXT does this, past experience shows that, generally, nobody will use it. What is more likely, and somewhat easier from their standpoint, is to provide an emulator for the 68k; if they ever end up supporting heterogenous multiprocessing, the emulator can come into play only if the 68k-family processor doesn't exist. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; sef@kithrup.COM | I had a bellyache at the time." -----------------+ -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.