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From: alain@elevia.UUCP (W.A.Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: The RISK of going RISC
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.195929.6876@elevia.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 91 19:59:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.230817.10620@elevia.UUCP> <1991Jun27.133021.3793@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
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In <1991Jun27.133021.3793@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth) writes:
>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. 

	Why would they have started at all?  This was what puzzled me
	the most in this whole thing.

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

	I believe they are doing just that.

>Bill Roth
-- 
William "Alain" Simon
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