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To: Scumbria who wrote (40381)10/29/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573482
 
Scumbria - Re: "A nice simple RISC architecture would have put
a lot of good hardware people out of work."

It did.

Let's see.. lots of Motorola 88000 designers are out of work.

Lot's of MIPS designers are out of work.

Lot's of PowerPC designers at Motorola are out of work.

Lot's of PowerPC designers at IBM are out of work.

Lot's of ALPHA designers have left DEC/Compaq .

You can fill in some more.

Paul