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Article #1301Re: P5 or Pentium
From: Dennis O'Connor
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:02
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:02
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mu@terapin.com (Mu Hong Lin) writes: ] I wonder how Motorola is doing with '050. They're not. Motorola is jumping straight to the 68060. Due out in '94 I THINK. ] I guess Intel's profit is too great, I mean, Intel makes more money, ] and will have more money to spend in R&D. Actually, I'm pretty sure Motorola is actually bigger than Intel, in gross revenues. But Motorola is also more diversified : they make cellular phone, pagers, police radios, and other things, as well as chips. ] Will someone explain ( technially ) why RISC chips are so much faster ] than CISC chips?? RISC chips don't need to support obsolete mis-features from 10 years ago. CISC chips generally do, because they are all old architectures. -- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ornl!sunova!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!chnews!chnews!doconnor From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: P5 or Pentium Date: 20 Nov 92 10:02:31 Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture Lines: 20 Message-ID: <DOCONNOR.92Nov20100231@potato.sedona.intel.com> References: <mu.2a8o@terapin.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: potato.intel.com In-reply-to: mu@terapin.com's message of 19 Nov 92 19:53:09 PST