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From: jru@etn-rad.UUCP (John Unekis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 rumors, questions, and comments
Message-ID: <249@etn-rad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 12:47:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: etn-rad.249
Posted: Thu Aug 13 12:47:22 1987
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References: <1014@vi.ri.cmu.edu>
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Keywords: protection sun machine

In article <1014@vi.ri.cmu.edu> jfb@vi.ri.cmu.edu (John Brennen) writes:
>
>Second, I have heard that Sun is planning a 386-based machine.  If this
>is true, it says something interesting:  that someone with no financial
>interest in Intel and a considerable investment in Motorola has chosen
>an Intel part.  Sun certainly isn't turning its back on Motorola, but
>broadening one's horizons never hurt anyone.
>
 As far as I know, SUN has no plans to implement an intel based machine. 
 This sounds like  a self-serving rumor started by Intel. The next SUN
 machine out will be the SUN 4, which will be based on a very high speed
 RISC processor(10+MIPS). The only rumor that I have ever heard about SUN
 and Intel is that SUN was able to emulate the instruction set of the 8088
 in a software routine on the SUN3, and still beat out the PC in performance.
 They intended to offer this software emulation as their answer to IBM
 PC compatibility since, as far as I know, SUN would rather die than dirty
 their hands with an intel chip.

>I've written multitaskers for both the 80xxx family and the 68xxx family,
>and I'll admit that the 68xxx program was cleaner and easier to write.
>The problem is that a UN*X primitive like fork() is difficult to implement
....
>"solution" (a 68020 with MMU) was unacceptable at the time, and restricts
....
    This is a little like saying 'I bought a ford without wheels and I
    couldn't drive it, so now I only  buy chevrolets.'