Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!winchester!mash From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: R6000 PCs? Message-ID: <34227@mips.mips.COM> Date: 8 Jan 90 15:01:50 GMT References: <3300092@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@mips.COM Reply-To: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 21 In article <3300092@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >In 1980, the Z-80 and 6502 were state-of-the-art CPUs in PC's of the >time. I think these machines could probably manage .1 MIPS. Today, >the state-of-the-art CPU is the '386, the '486, and the 68030. All >these devices are 2-4 MIPS, about 20-40 times faster. > >I conclude that everyone will have an R6000 (or better) in the >(affordable) PC of the year 2000. > >This seems like a long time. Well, lots of people will have affordable workstations of that power, well before the year 2000. However, just to make things clear, R6000's use ECL, and you don't stick that in a desktop; desktops will continue to want CMOS chips. -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086