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Re: The Motorola 68030

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From: John Gilmore
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 20:40
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In article <200@mipos3.UUCP>, Ken Shoemaker writes:
>                                        Should I feel vindicated that Mot
> has finally decided that on-chip memory management is a good idea? 

Yes.

>                                                                     And
> what about performance?  Why would a new, ultra-high end user choose
> the 68030 over, say, the Clipper, or the MIPS chips...

Good question.  Why would they choose the 80386 over these chips?
It's probably a very similar set of reasons.
(you get extra bonus credit if you just THINK about this and don't POST!)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!hoptoad!gnu
From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: The Motorola 68030
Message-ID: <1172@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 16:40:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1172
Posted: Thu Oct  2 16:40:24 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 06:39:34 EDT
References: <2270@gitpyr.UUCP> <7637@sun.uucp> <729@sauron.UUCP> <200@mipos3.UUCP>
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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