alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) (02/07/90)
ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch) writes: >In article <1990Feb6.104107.11244@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes: >> >>Uuuuh, guys, there aren't tens of millions of Mac Pluses and SEs. Apple >>ain't even close to Motorola's #1 customer for ANY chip, especially >>the 8MHz ("Now! In this box of cereal! A free fully-functional, 32-bit >>microprocessor!") 68000. Try instrument controllers, or IBM. >IBM is the leading consumer of 68000's? For what??? Don't they use Intels? And nearly everyone else's. But there are many many 68Ks around--like, quintillions :-) in nearly everything bigger than a blender. They're cheaper than the alternate logic (ok, so you can't do onboard programming --followup to net.electronics.engineering :-) IBM, among other things, used the 68000 as the basis for the 370PC a while back (re-microcoded, natch). The things turn up EVERYWHERE. >What do you work for Intel too? The sx is almost identical to the 286 as >far as speed and power goes. Only really nazi companies require 386 chips. If you don't understand why you want flat 4-gigabyte addressing, onboard memory management, full backward compatibility and future forward compatibility--read the discussions about the 68K versus the 020 and 030. >>Yes, make the SE (or even Plus) cheaper, instead of a "Mac-junior". >>It's not like the (very automated, highly admired) >>factory can't turn them out for pennies! >Not possible as mentioned earlier. I won't argue with you, I will just differ with your opinions. Alex