Re: Are the Turbos CPU Upgradable?

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From: Stefan Monnier
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 11:33

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Turbos CPU Upgr.. Alex Raftis@??? (1466)

> Tin Yau Fung writes

> As a side note, can anyone verify the rumors that Moto will skip development of
> the '050 and jump to the '060? I was told a short while back that the '050 was
> to be a stepping point on the way to the '060, but because of pressure from
> Intel with the P5 (aka '586) they decided to go directly to the '060 to remain
> more competative.

Yes, it is true, Motorola's next 680x0 will be 68060 cause 68050 wouldn't
have been powerful enough compared to 586 or SuperSPARC or R4000 or
all the likes ! It was not intended to be Superscalar ! 68060 is going to be !

> Alex
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>     Internet: alex@data.acs.calpoly.edu (NeXT mail)
>               alex@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu


	Stefan Monnier

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