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In article <1992Nov6.121324.21742@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> nhaldar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Neil A Haldar) writes:
>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...

Yeah, someone mentioned this to me at the last hAng meeting.  Now, I'm
no processor architecture wiz, but it sounds like complete B.S. to me.


andrew
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