Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!johnl
From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: How the Japanese will win the MIPS wars with SPARC
Message-ID: <2493@ima.ima.isc.com>
Date: 6 Sep 88 23:34:57 GMT
References: <58@zeno.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
Organization: Not much
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In article <58@zeno.MN.ORG> gene@zeno.UUCP (Gene H. Olson) writes:
>*	The Japanese will embrace SPARC with a singular ferocity.
>	...
>	Their desire to cooperate within domestic industry, and their
>	classic long-term outlook will cause them to produce a range
>	of extremely compatible and price competitive products.

Given some of the extremely complicated and rather peculiar processor
designs coming out of Japan these days under the auspices of the TRON
project, I wouldn't hold my breath.  The various TRON architectures aren't
compatible with each other, either.  See recent issues of IEEE Micro for
details.
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