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Article #7507Re: RISC Amiga and multiprocessing
From: markv
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 1990 16:48
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 1990 16:48
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> This is merely speculation. I find it difficult to believe that
> CBM could one day dump Motorola CPU's and take on say Intel's....
> Seems that gearing the Amiga for a non Motorola CPU...
As a PC programmer also, all I can say is I don't want an Intel
CPU!!!!!!!! Segmented address space (yuck, and I *know* about the
386...), backwords byte ordering (makes network programming a pain),
etc. I'll take a Motorola CPU over an Intel any day (esp a 040 :-)).
> Jeff S. Dickson jdickson@zook.jpl.nasa.gov
>
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