26 Jun
1998
26 Jun
'98
10:22 a.m.
William Donzelli <william(a)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