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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
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 19:49:00 1984
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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