Sun and the CPU Wars (was Re: NeXT cubes or slabs.)

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Fri Jun 26 17:22:57 1998

William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net> wrote:
> Actually, the 88000 was killed off because Sun went with the SPARCs for
> their next generation of machines, the Sun-4 series.

So...how did/do you read the 386i? Back then, I read it as Sun
hedging its bets against a total victory by Intel in the CPU Wars of
the late 1980s: they could sell Motorola, Intel, and SPARC today
(today being then, not now) and promise to be around tomorrow no
matter what the CPU of tomorrow looked like.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Fri Jun 26 1998 - 17:22:57 BST