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In article <1992Nov6.112552.21376@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Al
exander Swietlicki) writes:
>    I picked up a copy of Byte today, and aside from a mediocre
>review of NeXT (no fair, they placed a mono classic slab against machines
>priced in the $10-$36,000 range and complained), there was a blurb about
>some new RISC chip: the IMS3250 which is supposed to run at 100 Mhz, 90 Mips,
>and be able to emulate both a 486@25Mhz and a 68040@30Mhz.  Here's the
>kicker: it's supposed to cost between $50 and $60 in production quantities.
>Wonder what effect this'll have on the industry?  Heheh...imagine: NeXTSTEP
>and NeXTSTEP486 on the same box.  :)

Umm... this ISN'T the same chip going in the PowerPC/Pink thingy between 
Apple/IBM, right?  I can see the 486 emulation, but for the 68040 emulation... 
wow...

I'd gander that the methods of memory allocation and caching are completely 
different between the Intel and Motorola lines, and I can't believe that 
someone's solved that problem at that low a price...

Gotta run out and find that issue of Byte!

-Neil
*>  Neil Haldar                                                              <*
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*>  Neil Haldar                                                              <*
*>  nhaldar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu                                        <*
*>  neilh@well.sf.ca.us                                                      <*
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