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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: P5 or Pentium
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:02:31
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
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- Message-ID: <DOCONNOR.92Nov20100231@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- In-reply-to: mu@terapin.com's message of 19 Nov 92 19:53:09 PST
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- mu@terapin.com (Mu Hong Lin) writes:
- ] I wonder how Motorola is doing with '050.
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- They're not. Motorola is jumping straight to the 68060. Due out in '94 I THINK.
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- ] I guess Intel's profit is too great, I mean, Intel makes more money,
- ] and will have more money to spend in R&D.
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- Actually, I'm pretty sure Motorola is actually bigger than Intel, in gross
- revenues. But Motorola is also more diversified : they make cellular phone,
- pagers, police radios, and other things, as well as chips.
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- ] Will someone explain ( technially ) why RISC chips are so much faster
- ] than CISC chips??
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- RISC chips don't need to support obsolete mis-features from 10 years ago.
- CISC chips generally do, because they are all old architectures.
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- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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