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Article #22177Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
From: Robert D. Silverman
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 13:54
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 13:54
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In article <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU> underdog@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
:My suspicions are confirmed. The NEXT computer is in trouble.
:
:NEXT can only be saved if Steve Jobs replaces the 680X0
:with RISC processor like the Sparc chip. In all compute
^^^
:intensive applications, the Sparcstation I beats the NEXT
:timewise. Worse, NEXT costs MORE than a Sparstation I.
Try to be a little less dogmatic please. Your use of the word
'all' leaves a little to be desired. I have applications that
involve a lot of multi-precise integer arithmetic and rely
heavily on integer multiply and divide with remainder. These
applications run faster on the NEXT (and on the SUN-3/80 on my desk)
than they do on the Sparcstation I.
--
Bob Silverman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!bs From: bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring) Message-ID: <94307@linus.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 90 13:54:18 GMT References: <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: bs@gauss.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA Lines: 22