Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sri-unix!garth!walter 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 Lines: 18 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 :-( -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My opinions are my own. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. E-Mail route: ...!pyramid!garth!walter (415) 852-2384 USPS: Intergraph APD, 2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, California 94303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------