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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 68040 and 80486
Message-ID: <3860@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 13 Apr 89 20:11:44 GMT
References: <1032@myrias.UUCP> <12289@reed.UUCP> <1049@myrias.UUCP> <1928@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <1928@trantor.harris-atd.com>, thaker@pak.harris-atd.com (Gautam Thaker) writes:
> Why is comp.arch so quiet these days? What happened to the
> good old days of "processor wars"? 68040 and 486...

Nothing. It's just that the intel-vs-motorola wars are insufficiently
exciting. The current rage is RISC vs CISC, now that RISC is finally
showing some advantages.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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