Re: Advice on system purchase

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Subject: Re: Advice on system purchase
From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:26:50 -0500
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On 11/3/2012 2:32 AM, Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Saturday, November 03, 2012 01:47:40 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Motorola 680x0, DEC Alpha, SGI MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Motorola/IBM PowerPC,
>> Sun SPARC, Cray Vector, Intel Itanium (irony here).
> 
> You missed Moto's 88K

I didn't include the 88K because its demise had nothing to do with
competition from x86.  It died because Motorola decided to adopt PowerPC
as its RISC architecture, pulling the plug on the 88K as a result.

-- 
Stan

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  - From: Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>

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