On 24 Oct 2000 16:27:46 -0000 Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com> writes:
> This in no way reflects badly on Motorola, as they documented the
> behavior correctly. It does show, however, that they were starting
> to lose the CISC performance competition. Probably because Intel was
> simply able to outspend Motorola on high-end microprocessor R&D.
Not to mention the fact that Mot had bet (and spent) heavily on the
88000 RISC architecture and lost. Unfortunately, the marketplace
wasn't looking for a better design; rather it simply wanted faster &
cheaper.
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Received on Tue Oct 24 2000 - 12:32:17 BST