Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!lion!ccplumb
From: ccplumb@lion.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
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Date: 6 Feb 90 04:16:21 GMT
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In article <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU> underdog@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>NEXT can only be saved if Steve Jobs replaces the 680X0
>with RISC processor like the Sparc chip.  In all compute
>intensive applications, the Sparcstation I beats the NEXT
>timewise.  Worse, NEXT costs MORE than a Sparstation I.

You can do a lot with architectures that are lacking in price/performance,
but it's possible Steve Jobs has the same idea... have you noticed how many
processor architects he's hired in the last year?
-- 
	-Colin