Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!noao!nud!fishpond!fnf From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MAC 88000 Message-ID: <113@fishpond.UUCP> Date: 10 Jul 88 00:19:46 GMT References: <261@hodge.UUCP> <370STORKEL@RICE> Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) Organization: occasionally Lines: 17 In article <370STORKEL@RICE> STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) writes: >The Motorloa 88000 the processor of the future? For Motorola maybe. But hey, >the Sun 4 with 10 MIPS performance is here NOW, using the SPARC architecture. >And other companies are supporting SPARC, too. Last I heard, the 88000 was >still a pipe dream. So why not the MacSPARC? Excuse me. A pipe dream? Tek has had an M88000 based coprocessor card running in Mac-II's for months. Yes, it's pricey. Yes, the price will probably drop drastically once chips are available in volume. My impression is that the companies that have announced support for the M88000 are far more serious about producing real, working hardware than the ones that have announced support for SPARC (except Sun of course :-). -Fred (Formerly part of the M88000 software team) -- # Fred Fish, 1346 West 10th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA # noao!nud!fishpond!fnf (602) 921-1113