Path: utzoo!hoptoad!well!pacbell!amdahl!amdcad!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ls1i+ From: ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) Newsgroups: alt.next Subject: RISC Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 88 18:54:49 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 8 Outdated Processor Technology: NeXT just missed the wave of fast RISC > processors. The 5 MIPS 68030 is completely out performed by the currently > available RISC chips (Motorola, MIPS, Sparc) that run at approximately > 20 VAX (they claim) MIPS. In a year or two, ECL versions of some of these > RISC chips will be running at 40 to 50 MIPS. Can someone tell me what the deal is with RISC processors? What are the specs?