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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.041025.26542@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <#54G+r2i1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr06.042636.3533@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Apr6.075425.18800@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 04:10:25 GMT

In article <1991Apr6.075425.18800@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>   Au contraire, I think the PC market is going to change a LOT more in
> the next five years than it has in the past five.  Consider, since
> 1986 (5 years ago), not a single significant new architecture has come
> to market

You mean apart from the 80386 and the Acorn RISC machine? And the 80386
is really a new CPU that happens to have an 80286 tucked away in a corner.
It has allowed all sorts of new things to get into the home market.

>   In the next 5 years (91-96), we're going to see new RISC
> architectures from ARCA, pen-driven machines from Go et al, RS/6000
> systems coming down into the PC market from IBM, RISC machines and new
> OSes from Apple etc...

We'll see. RISC machines have been pretty cheap for a while, and PC clone
manufacturers have started making SPARC boxes in the last year. What has this
produced?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
