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From: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68040 vs RISC
Summary: Gallium Arsenide == GaAs
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Date: 6 Feb 90 20:23:39 GMT
References: <1990Feb2.073513.29698@agate.berkeley.edu> <21699@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Feb3.211701.15279@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Feb3.211701.15279@agate.berkeley.edu> laba-3en@web-1d (Raja S Kushalnagar) writes:
<In article <21699@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> lachesis@nyquist.bellcore.com writes:
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<>RISC is not shaky.  Given the current technology, it is probably the only
<>architecture capable of being implemented on the latest (highest speed)
<>technologies like GaAr.
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<You are probably right. It has taken an awfully long time for GaAr to become
<viable, though.

Yeah, they've been working long and hard on that Gallium Argonide process.
Fast as heck, but the chips always decompose within 10 microseconds.  :-)

(Hint: Arsenic is As, not Ar.)

	Cheers,
	Charles Poirier