CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (02/08/84)
From: Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA> the Dec 83 issue of High-Technology has a very readable article on page 36, describing the current scene in the chip market, the trade-offs of different chips and designs, Operating Systems, etc. I don't know if it's correct in technical details or up-to-date in describing what's known in coming developments, but it's author Dwight B. Davis writes with a clarity I had become used to seeing only in Scientific American. Key-words: super-micros, minis, families of chips: Motorola's 68xxx, Intel's 86 series, standardization efforts, buses, open/closed systems, UNIX vs CP/M vs MS-DOS. Mini-vendor reactions. 8 vs 16 vs 32 bit architectures. Shared-logic vs Network-in-a-box architecture. -------