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From: ed@plx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Recent Motorola ad seen in Byte
Message-ID: <580@plx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 20:06:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 20:06:19 1987
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Summary: Memory too expensive

In article <1466@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, lodman@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Mike Lodman) writes:
> In article <362@sbcs.UUCP> root@sbcs.UUCP (Root) writes:
> >What did you, fellow Usenetters, think of the recent Motorola advertisement
> >(April '87 Byte) about 68020 -vs- 80386?  Used to be that Intel dispensed
> >copious amounts of smoke when comparing their processors vs those from
> >Motorola.  It seems now that Intel has a somewhat serious machine, the shoe 
> >is on the other foot and Motorola seems to be running the smear campaign.
> 
> 
> Personally, I find Motorola's claims much more believable.
> 
> 
 Me too, I'm told that if you want to take advantage of the 386 performance,
 you have to use some DISGUSTINGLY EXPENSIVE  RAM. 

 The other thing to remember is that the Motorola parts are SHIPPING at
 25Mhz.  A 25Mhz '020 blows the doors off a 16.? Mhz '386.

 To me, the only advantage of '386 is the virtual DOS machine capability.
 the ability to run DOS as a task under UNIX  seems neat.

 Now the REAL screamer is CLIPPER. The nice thing about CLIPPER is
 that you can really cut down on all those support chips (building an
 8k cache out of discrete components is EXPENSIVE.  

 -ed-
> -- 
> Michael Lodman
> Advanced Development NCR Corporation E&M San Diego
> mike.lodman@SanDiego.NCR.COM 
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