Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!bcase From: bcase@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Some thoughts on future micro-comp Message-ID: <10400172@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 19:49:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.10400172 Posted: Mon Nov 5 19:49:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Nov-84 06:36:53 EST References: <20300008@okstate.UUCP> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:okstate:20300008:uiucdcs:10400172:000:1009 Nf-From: uiucdcs!bcase Nov 5 18:49:00 1984 > /* Written 1:21 pm Nov 2, 1984 by mwm@ea in uiucdcs:net.micro */ > /***** ea:net.micro / uiucdcs!bcase / 3:17 pm Oct 31, 1984 */ > [wo wo here she comes, watch out boy she'll chew you up, she's a line eater] > > You have left out HP with their RISC-chip family: Spectrum. You have > left out the 68020. You have left out whatever RISC-like thing that > DEC will do. You have left out the Z80000. .... > > bcase > /* ---------- */ > RISC-like thing from DEC? Are you kidding? > > DEC just "announced" three new micro-class machines: The VAXSTATION I, a > MICROVAX I packaged like a SUN; the PRO 380, a J11 (PDP-11/70 on a chip) > box; and the DECMATE III, yet another z80 box. None of these in any way > resembles a RISC, and the three of them pretty well cover the spectrum of > single-user machines. > >/* End of text from uiucdcs:net.micro */ Nonetheless, I predict that DEC will have some sort of RISC-like thing in a workstation sometime. Gullibly yours, bcase