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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC 88000
Message-ID: <925@garth.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 88 18:54:13 GMT
References: <261@hodge.UUCP> <370STORKEL@RICE>
Reply-To: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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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?

Tektronix can fit the 88000 on a NuBus card because the cache and MMU is
integrated on the module.  A SPARC couldn't fit, though I think Sun is
working on cache and MMU support now.  Of course Clipper originated the
module with integrated CAMMU, and it's shipping in volume.  (No commercial:
You can't buy a Clipper Mac board - only PC-AT, UNIX, and bad old MS-DOS :-)
Sigh :-(
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