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Article #30158Re: MAC 88000
From: Steve Witten
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1988 15:27
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1988 15:27
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/ hpiacla:comp.sys.mac / STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) / 2:08 pm Jul 6, 1988 /
>...why not
>let the guys at Apple finish designing their own RISC chip. Heck, we could
>have Quickdraw in micro-code!
>Scott Storkel
>Macintosh Software Development
>Rice University
>----------
Microcode for a RISC chip? Come on, that would defeat all the advantages of
a RISC chip!!!! The ROM approach would probably be better but it would have
to be bigger... Can you imagine a Mac with 1Mb ROMs???
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