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From: bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: The RISK of going RISC
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.133021.3793@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 13:30:21 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.230817.10620@elevia.UUCP>
Organization: University of Wisconsin Physical Sciences Lab
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In article <1991Jun26.230817.10620@elevia.UUCP> alain@elevia.UUCP (W.A.Simon) writes:
>There were speculations, in this group, about the move by NeXT,
>towards a Motorola 88k RISC chip.  In view of the latest Blue
>Apple Initiative, which affects Motorola's effort in a major way,
>would anybody care to comment on the impacts of this alliance
>on NeXT, and on whatever moves to RISC are afoot?
>
In this morning's New York Times, there was a story about  how the 
talks between Apple and IBM are stalled, and that most of the
technical people at apple are praying that they don't have to 
design a machine around the RS/6000 chip. In light of apple's
bad blood toward the Evil Empire I think the effect of the talks will
be a waste of time. 

If Motorola was smart, they'doffer the 88k series to NeXT for a song. They
need to get a chip out in mainstream machine. 
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