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From: hsu@pitstop.UUCP (David Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC 88000
Message-ID: <153@pitstop.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 21:50:48 GMT
References: <261@hodge.UUCP> <370STORKEL@RICE> <925@garth.UUCP>
Reply-To: hsu@pitstop.UUCP (David Hsu - Sun ECD Software Consultant)
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In article <925@garth.UUCP> walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays) writes:
>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.

I presume you mean "a well-supported SPARC couldn't fit".  It seems to me 
that a simple SPARC board would fit...isn't the guy that designed the
Tek 88k board the same one who designed the Definicon SPARC board
for the IBM-PC?  Of course, there was no cache (just static-column
twiddling) and I don't think there was an MMU.

-dave hsu, lowly consultant			dhsu@sun.com

My opinions have nothing at all to do with Sun Microsystems; I just post
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