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From: braner@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (braner)
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Subject: Re: The Motorola 68030
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 18:52:41 EDT
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Gee, that was to much to ignore...

Can anybody point me to the numerous powerful multi-user super-boxes that
are using the '286 or '386 (AT doesn't count since it is actually used
by single users, and in 8088 emulation mode, primarily)?  As far as I can
tell, designers that are not REQUIRED by their employers to use Intel
chips have long used the 68K family for that purpose!

If you want REALLY high-end computing power, you get a CRAY and such.
If you want a real big bang per buck, you get a 68K personal machine.
Unless, of course, you only feel comfortable in the crowd, the crowd
that will use 8080 software forever (they think).

- Moshe Braner

BTW: the ST + 32081 math coprocessor beats (for number crunching) the
portion of the power of the VAX I work on that actually labors for me.
Price?  still < $1000