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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: quest for breakthroughs (long)
Keywords: architecture, breakthrough, technology
Message-ID: <6083@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 23:05:52 GMT
References: <740@tetons.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 46

In article <740@tetons.UUCP> bb@tetons.UUCP (Bob Blau) writes:
>  What are your assumptions?
>End Product: Embedded controller, PC, Workstation, Mini, SuperMini,
>             MiniSuper, Mainframe, Super, ... 

	Home PCs to low-end workstations.

>Architecture:RISC, CISC, Vector, Massively parallel, VLIW, Shared memory
>             multiprocessor, ...

	CISC 680x0 family

>Application: Home, Business, Engineering, Scientific, Manufacturing, ...

	Home, Business (esp graphics/video/sound), plus others.

>Timeframe:   Next year, in 5 years, in 10 years, ...

	Next 2-3 years.

>  What problems are you trying to solve?
>- Performance, Cost, Complexity, Size, Reliability, ...

	Cost, Performance

> Examples:

	(all of these can be used more or less alone)

	Cheap large ram.
	Cheap VRAM.

	Reasonably priced (<$500) 1280x1024 or better color monitors.
	
	Reasonably priced (<$500) 2Kx2K grey-scale monitors.

	Cheaper small SCSI drives (say <$300 for 100Meg 28ms 3.5").

	ASIC that allow both many pins (>>100) with 68000/68010 core and
	allows LOTS of other logic around it (currently 3 low-tech VLSI
	chips plus a gate array).  (Not bloody likely in given time frame :-)

	Cheap ram (did I say that already? :-)

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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup