Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!hsu 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) Organization: The Alliance of Italian Food Addicts Lines: 21 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 from here.