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Article #1258Re: NeXT's RISC Workstation
From: Scott Wisdom
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:11
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:11
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In article <1992Apr10.091036.3083@whetstone.uucp> whetstone!johnc@ms.uky.edu (John Coppinger) writes: > My question is this: is the 88K really that fast? Does Motorola really know > something about RISC that Sun doesn't? How does Motorola get 75+ MIPS out of > their RISC when Sun is working pretty hard to squeeze 30 out of SPARC? I'm not > a processor freak, so I don't really know about this stuff. Can someone > enlighten me? I think it's pretty fast. From what I understand the 88100 (88000?) wasn't all that great. Motorola has been working on the 88110 for quite some time now (=years) and it is SUPPOSED to make up for many of the 88100's shortcomings. One thing I would like to know is what kind of 3d graphics support does the 88110 have? On chip Z-buffering? Does anyone know? There have been references to 3d hardware support. Scott Wisdom wisdom@geom.umn.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!news.UU.NET!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!news From: wisdom@leghorn.cs.umn.edu (Scott Wisdom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT's RISC Workstation Message-ID: <1992Apr10.201106.9217@news2.cis.umn.edu> Date: 10 Apr 92 20:11:06 GMT References: <1992Apr10.091036.3083@whetstone.uucp> Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Minnesota Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: leghorn.cs.umn.edu