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From: chari@juniper.uucp (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.next
Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Summary: I meant *pin* compatible
Message-ID: <5549@juniper.uucp>
Date: 16 Oct 88 16:48:52 GMT
References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5498@juniper.uucp> <1988Oct16.022032.29382@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: chari@juniper.UUCP (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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In article <1988Oct16.022032.29382@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <5498@juniper.uucp> chari@juniper.UUCP (Christopher Michael Whatley) writes:
>>[Cisc comatible risc (ok it did sound dumb)]
>
>Sigh.  Isn't it sad:  even in comp.arch, people have forgotten what "RISC"
>means.  That's like trying to build a Concorde that's compatible with a
>donkey cart.

Excuse me for not being precise enough. To quote.... "It's a sort of RISC/CISC
hybrid [which is] pin-compatible with the 68030. [It] supports the motorola
instruction set at between 1 and 2 instructions per cycle..."
>
>>... One of the infoworld

>>reporters said that NeXT was considering using the modem for distribution. Ha!
>
>Why the "Ha!"?  It's not a ridiculous idea.  The AT&T Software Toolchest...

Ok, it's not such a ridiculous idea. However, your average student (me), does
not want to call up uunet and sit ther for an hour watching the retry count
go up long distance. If the university could have the software available 
by modem that would be great. You could go into the computer store at school
pay your money and get a special password and login-name. That wouldn't be too
hard to manage I suppose.

Chris
(Gee I miss Toronto, I went to U of T last year)

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