Alpha CPUs, was Re: [rescue] i860 Success

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Mon May 3 18:13:48 CDT 2004


On May 3, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> :-)
>
> BTW, IMHO the most important microprocessor chip was the 80386. It's
> combination of support for virtual memory and a flat address space
> made affordable UNIX, and it's children e.g. the 386 BSDs, Linux, etc
> a reality.
>
>
> Geoff.
>
IMHO the 68K would have done the same thing had the 386 not been around.

Andrew



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