Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac OS Message-ID: <1991Jun22.052249.22349@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 22 Jun 91 05:22:49 GMT References: <56352@nigel.ee.udel.edu><9106161209.27@rmkhome.UUCP> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 37 rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: >> >>According to BusinessWeek of June 24, 1991: >> >>1. Apple would get the RS/6000 chip set. >> >>2. IBM would get a new Apple OS code-named "Pink", which could easily run >> on Apple and IBM machines. >> >>3. Motorola would produce RS/6000 chips for Apple, and become a second >> source supplier to IBM. >> >Sounds like a sweetheart deal...But will Pink run on low end machines? This is >very vauge though... Re the RS/6000. I, along with most others [according to the press] would be very surprised if Apple doesn't go with the 88110 for their first RISC machine. If you believe the rumours, Pink is designed to run on any architecture, although my guess is that it will presuppose virtual memory/memory protection support in hardware... so that only counts 68020+68851 or 80386 or any RISC chip and above. By the time Pink gets out [who knows? 93?], a 68020 probably will be the low end of the market. >You said RS/6000 chip set...Is it one chip, or many? I think it's about five separate chips. Something in the order of 4 million transistors. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "Apes evolved from creationists" - seen on a bumper sticker.