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From: steve@hpiacla.HP.COM (Steve Witten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC 88000
Message-ID: <4860014@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 88 15:27:00 GMT
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/ hpiacla:comp.sys.mac / STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) /  2:08 pm  Jul  6, 1988 /
>...why not
>let the guys at Apple finish designing their own RISC chip. Heck, we could
>have Quickdraw in micro-code!

>Scott Storkel
>Macintosh Software Development
>Rice University
>----------

Microcode for a RISC chip?  Come on, that would defeat all the advantages of
a RISC chip!!!!  The ROM approach would probably be better but it would have
to be bigger...  Can you imagine a Mac with 1Mb ROMs???

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