🚀 go-pugleaf

Yamanari writes

>> Furthermore, is the Alpha available to other vendors?  The same
>> goes

> 	Anyone know--I'm curious about this one^

DEC has not yet been successful in licensing the current Alpha chip
design.  The chip has other problems, one being sheer physical
mass.  It's a very tough chip to make, and I don't think the design
could be cost effective for a while.

Personally, I'd like to see NeXT (well, anyone actually) make a
hardware box with several slots for several different processor
types.  You like PA-RISC? Plug it in.  Want those same programs to
run faster? Plug in a few more, and power back on.  You decide that
you like SPARC better? Plug it in.  You need that 486 program to
run fast instead of under emulation?  Go buy one and plug it in.

I'd like to see display architectures the same way.  2-bit gray?
One low density SIMM.  8-bit gray or 12 bit color?  One regular
SIMM.  24 bit color?  Another SIMM.  Two to four headed? Add a card
with three more empty banks and start populating them...

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