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To: tcmay who wrote (136095)	5/29/2001 7:49:17 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (2) of 186894

Hi Tim, Ref < I would count the 29000, aka the 29K, as a major attempt to pioneer a major new architecture. The 29K was a very well-regarded chip, often used in high-performance laser printers > Did not get time to react to your statement. AMD developed the 29000 several years after the microcontroller market had been defined. And developing a new microcontroller is not pioneering a new general purpose processor. You do not have to worry about standards and infra structure headaches. It takes a much smaller investment. Microcontrollers have also been the graveyard of several failed general purpose processors! The National 32000 and the MIPS come to mind right now. The same team which created the excellent 29000, was responsible for the disasters on the K5. They made such major goofs, that the entire team was fired en masse after the NextGen acquisition. My point is that a new general purpose computing architecture takes an order of magnitude greater effort than a microcontroller.

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