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Subject: Recent Motorola ad seen in Byte
Message-ID: <362@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Mar-87 23:18:41 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 22 23:18:41 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 03:16:35 EST
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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.

While I am on the subject, did anyone else catch Scott McNealys (Sun Micr.
Prez) regarding the '386 - they went something along the lines (rough
quote): "no high performance Unix exists for the chip - therefore it
has architectural problems".  I suppose the 68020 had the same archtectural
problems when it first came out, but they just "got better".  Oh well, I
guess company presidents should be kept in a Bell jar when not discussing 
yachting, eh?

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						Rick Spanbauer
						SUNY/Stony Brook