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Subject: Re: Re: ANOTHER 32-BIT MACHINE???  (L O
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 01:22:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 01:22:44 1985
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     Actually, the major reason that Intel seems to run away with the market
is that Intel gets the support chips out the door along with the processor.
The M68000 is nice.  But the matching MMU came out years after the CPU.  The
FPU is now being sampled.  Motorola's new math coprocessor sounds really great.
Maybe next year I'll be able to get it in a SUN.  The year after, I might
be able to get it in a MAC-class machine.  By 1988 it might make sense to market
a software package that required it.  But not sooner.  Intel has interface
chips for the Multibus.  If Motorola has VMEbus interface chips, the VMEbus
board vendors aren't using them in a big way (possibly for good reason;
see my previous posting about FCOs for Omnibyte CPU cards.)  Motorola just
doesn't put enough priority on getting the support chips out the door.
    It's really frustrating.  Motorola makes some really great products.
Here's a dream product.  Every part needed has been announced. 

	The Mighty MAC

	2MB RAM (16 1Mb chips).
	M68020 @ 24Mhz with matching MPU and FPU.
	Hyperdrive-type hard disk.
	DSDD 3.5" removable disks.
	MAC-compatible but with multiple processes.

Think I can get one for Christmas 1986?

						John Nagle