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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: The 68050 - end of the 680x0? (was Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.044921.18015@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 04:49:21 GMT
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chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:

>I hardly think that any of Motorola's MAJOR players are telling them they will
>swith to 88000's... Since i would imagine that Amiga/Mac/Atari/NeXT/etc.. are
                                                                ^^^^
  Take NeXT out of here and put it in the Unix workstation group.

>the bread and butter of the 68XXX line.. 

  Yes, these machines are the bread and butter, and I think they'll continue
to sell a LOT of low-end 680x0 CPUs for this market [e.g. I can see a 68050
Mac lasting until 1996 without too many problems].  But, I'm talking about
the high-end.  What incentive is there for Motorola to produce a 68060 if
all their high-end users [such as NeXT, HP, and you could say Apple] have
switched to another processor family?
  Maybe Motorola will do it for Commodore and Atari if they haven't switched
by then [or at least convinced everyone that their 80586 machines are really
far better than the Amiga or ST - yuck, what a horrible thought].

>with the Unix stations pulling up
>after most of those.. just how many 68XXX base Unix Stations are being sold
>these days?  not many.

  Not many, but these are the machines which are using up all the high-end
68040's.  

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