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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Need 286 "C" benchmark (really Intel vs. Motorola)
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 03:59:35 EDT
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>From: gus@Shasta.ARPA
>
> [Discussion of the relative de-/merits of Intel and Motorola MPU's.]
>
>The bottom line is which machine offers the best SOLUTION. The processor
>inside should not matter to the end-user. After all, usability is usually
>more dependent on software than on hardware.

I'm not an end user.  Should I ever buy a micro, I still won't be an
end user -- I'll want to do some systems-level programming (if not
writing a new system outright).  Intel and Motorola put out chips
which are each uniquely :~> baroque.  (I have still not succeeded in
obtaining a National manual from the alleged local distributor.  Someone
from National who thought I was in Toronto e-mailed me a while back,
unfortunately I couldn't get mail back to him.)  I would not buy the
current Intel or Motorola offerings -- I'd spend too much time fighting
the baroquenesses in their respective architectures.

As for software: I'd be tempted to write a new system rather than using
an existing one because this is my area of interest and because the
existing systems are less than optimal.  (The most despicable cad
on the planet should not be asked to use MS-DOS.  UN?X*, while being
a nice environment to use, is missing a couple of important features,
notably truly asynchronous I/O.)


* UN?X is (after wildcard expansion) the trademark of some component of
what used to be the phone company.

--
The above viewpoints are mine.  They are unrelated to
those of anyone else, including my cats and my employer.

Ken Montgomery  "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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