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From: rusty@pnet06.cts.com (Mr. Rusty Hodge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC 88000
Message-ID: <472@hodge.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 88 19:47:23 GMT
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steve@hpiacla.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes:
>/ hpiacla:comp.sys.mac / STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) /  2:08 pm  Jul  6, 1988 /
>>...why not
>>let the guys at Apple finish designing their own RISC chip. Heck, we could
>>have Quickdraw in micro-code!
>
>Microcode for a RISC chip?  Come on, that would defeat all the advantages of
>a RISC chip!!!!  The ROM approach would probably be better but it would have
>to be bigger...  Can you imagine a Mac with 1Mb ROMs???
Apple should probably look to something like the AMD Bit Slice chips to
microcode QuickDraw.  It would easily out-perform the 88000.  And it would be
basically a QuickDraw HLL engine- the desired 'Silicon QuickDraw' everyone has
been lusting for.

Rusty Hodge, HCR Inc, 1588 N. Batavia St. Orange, CA 92667      (714) 974-6300
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