Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpdslab!hpiacla!steve 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 References: <261@hodge.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Lines: 19 / 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??? =============================================================================== Steve Witten steve%hpiacla@hplabs.HP.COM Industrial Applications Center {ucbvax, hplabs}!hpda!hpdsla!hpiacla!steve Hewlett-Packard Co. steve@hpiacla "...I'm no fool! Nosirree!..." -- J. Cricket