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Article #10512Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times?
From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 13:50
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 13:50
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In article <+=+A+N6@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
| Neither the Intel nor Motorola CISC chips show any sign of regaining the
| performance edge from RISC, and it's only the existing base of 68000 and
| 8086 commodity PCs that has kept the system cost of 680x0 and 80x86 below
| the RISC chips.
Perhaps integrating the cache, MMU, and FPU on the same chip has had
some effect? A savings which I see is now being copied in RISC. Chips
like the Intel 32 bit CISC offerings do make design a lot easier, and
because of fewer support ships and connection smaller, cheaper, and more
reliable.
Not that I deny the ecconomies of scale, but there are technical
advantages, too. And competition has driven the price down a lot,
something we are seeing in the SPARC world. Multiple sources usually
bring the price down.
--
bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times? Message-ID: <3397@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 30 Apr 91 13:50:43 GMT References: <11399@uwm.edu> <JH_ABJF@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <+=+A+N6@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 21