Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: BITNET mail follows Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 88 03:56:42 GMT References: <8807270859.aa23128@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 >Date: 27 July 88, 08:40:55 EST >From: Steve King HEINEKEN at MTUS5 >To: INFO-APPLE at BRL.ARPA >>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! >The header was mucked, so I can't give credit to the author of this line. >(Doesn't matter, he pulled it from an article, anyway... :-) >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 Sorry about the mucked header; my host software bombed and I wan't sure whether anything made it to the net at all. I reposted it, but it didn't arrive until today. I thought calling the 68000 a RISC machine was kind of funny, too. But I got my information from the Gasee interview in Open-Apple, and that is what Weishaar called the 68000. Maybe there's something I'm missing here.... Capt. Albatross jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu ============ Looking forward to a GS+... disclaimer: These opinions are mine and will remain so until more intelligent or insightful or informed people are kind enough to show me the error of my ways because in the barbecue of life, a mind is a terrible thing to baste.