Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ace!henk
From: henk@ace.nl (Henk Hesselink)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
Summary: check out the Sony "News" workstation
Message-ID: <550@ace.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 88 12:05:45 GMT
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In article <1152@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
        
> I have always been uncomfortable with the idea of having your main CPU
> throwing all those display bits around anyway... hell, given the price
> of the 68030 it might pay Sun to stick an extra one in there to unload
> *all* of the display management from the main CPU.

The latest Sony "News" workstation has two '030s for exactly that
reason, and proves that it does pay.  A very nice machine indeed.

Henk Hesselink