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From: olsen@ll-xn.ARPA (Jim Olsen)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RT PC, 801, RISC horserace, etc.
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 12:29:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 12:29:20 1986
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>> The RISC development to watch is the Clipper chip set from Fairchild.
>> It is more up to date technology, has on chip floating point and seperate
>> single chip cache and memory management support.
> 
> It also has a price tag to make your hair stand on end.

Yes and no.  The Clipper module provides CPU, Floating Point, MMU with
TLB, and two caches.  The price is steep, but you get a lot for it.
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Jim Olsen   (olsen@ll-xn.arpa)  ...!{decvax,lll-crg,seismo}!ll-xn!olsen