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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
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Date: 29 Jul 88 13:42:03 GMT
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>>The article even went on to envision Apple supporting two, high-end pc lines
>>utilizing two distinct technologies; a RISC environment supporting UNIX on the
>>Mac, and parallel processing on the //. Why not? The potential is there!
>
>A RISC environment on the Mac?!  Um, last I looked the 68000 was *VERY MUCH*
>CISC.  There are a LOT of complex instructions there.
>
>                                                --Steve King
>                                                  HEINEKEN @ MTUS5.bitnet

Rumor has it that future Mac's will migrate to the Motorola 88000 family
which IS RISC (and, I suppose will have a 68000 emulation mode -- after all
at 17 MIPS, the 88000 has the power to run an entirely software based emulation
that would be as fast as today's Mac II).

Even simpler would be to add an 88000 coprocessor (after all why IS the
Mac II designed with a multi-channel bus?  The appropriate use of Nubus
really makes coprocessors equals so a Mac based on an 88000 with a 68000
"coprocessor" board would be nearly indistinguishable from a Mac built around
a 68000 with an 88000 "coprocessor" board.


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