Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Thomas Aaron Insel
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 06:22

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english@primenet.com (Lawson English) writes:

> And to call the only the second sucessful transition, to date, from CISC 
> to RISC (the first being the Alpha) "messy" is to ignore what happened to 
> every other company besides DEC that tried that.

Well, I'd say that Sun went from 68k to Sparc sucessfully.
No, this really doesn't have much to do with the argument,
but advocacy groups are for pedanticism, aren't they?

Tom
-- 
Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
  "His whole life long he fought against the illusion of gravity, of
   whose harmful results all statistics brought him new and manifold
   evidence." -- Karl Marx, Preface to The German Ideology.

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 5 Aug 95 06:22:57 GMT
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