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Article #30319Re: MAC 88000
From: Mr. Rusty Hodge
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1988 19:47
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1988 19:47
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steve@hpiacla.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes: >/ 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! > >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??? Apple should probably look to something like the AMD Bit Slice chips to microcode QuickDraw. It would easily out-perform the 88000. And it would be basically a QuickDraw HLL engine- the desired 'Silicon QuickDraw' everyone has been lusting for. Rusty Hodge, HCR Inc, 1588 N. Batavia St. Orange, CA 92667 (714) 974-6300 rusty@hodge.cts.com [uunet vdelta crash]!hodge!rusty FAX (714) 921-8038
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!hodge!pnet06!rusty From: rusty@pnet06.cts.com (Mr. Rusty Hodge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MAC 88000 Message-ID: <472@hodge.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 88 19:47:23 GMT Sender: rusty@hodge.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet06], Orange, CA Lines: 16