Re: New Moto chips (was Will NeXT survive?)

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Sat, 04 May 1991 22:45

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 >   Harumph...the latest chip announcements from Motorola include (more
 > or less):
 >
 >   - a 68040 with the MMU and FPU disabled
 >   - a 68030 with the MMU disabled
 >   - cheaper/faster/better 68020s and 68000s (no FPU or MMU to disable)

...

 >I hope NeXT isn't planning to put any of these in their machines.
 >They just won't do the job.  It sounds like Apple trying to keep those
 >profit margins up.

Those chips sound like the 68EC040, 68EC030, 68EC020, and 68EC000,
respectively; "EC" stands, presumably, for "Embedded Controller", that
being what the chips are intended to serve as CPUs for.  I don't think
Motorola had UNIX-box vendors like NeXT in mind; they may or may not
have had Apple in mind, but I wouldn't be the least surprised to find
they didn't have Apple in mind either. 

It doesn't sound to *me* at all like "Apple trying to keep those profit
margins up"; it sounds like Motorola trying to retain or increase market
share in embedded control....

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Subject: Re: New Moto chips (was Will NeXT survive?)
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