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In article <925@garth.UUCP> walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays) writes:
| In article <370STORKEL@RICE> STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) writes:
| >The Motorloa 88000 the processor of the future? For Motorola maybe. But hey,
| >the Sun 4 with 10 MIPS performance is here NOW, using the SPARC architecture.
| >And other companies are supporting SPARC, too. Last I heard,  the 88000 was
| >still a pipe dream. So why not the MacSPARC?
| 
| Tektronix can fit the 88000 on a NuBus card because the cache and MMU is
| integrated on the module.  A SPARC couldn't fit, though I think Sun is
| working on cache and MMU support now.  Of course Clipper originated the
| module with integrated CAMMU, and it's shipping in volume.  (No commercial:
| You can't buy a Clipper Mac board - only PC-AT, UNIX, and bad old MS-DOS :-)
| Sigh :-(

YARC (gee, what does that spell, backwards? ;-) is making a Mac II
coprocessor board utilizing the Am29000 RISC processor and the Am29027
Arithmetic Accelerator.  Performance is ~30,000 Dhrystones without
requiring external caches (it uses burst mode accesses with interleaved
static-column DRAMS).

-- 
	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@delirun.amd.com)