Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA From: CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Popular explanation of the current micro-scene in .... Message-ID: <16560@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 21:30:52 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16560 Posted: Tue Feb 7 21:30:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 07:05:17 EST Lines: 18 From: Werner Uhrigthe Dec 83 issue of High-Technology has a very readable article on page 36, describing the current scene in the chip market, the trade-offs of different chips and designs, Operating Systems, etc. I don't know if it's correct in technical details or up-to-date in describing what's known in coming developments, but it's author Dwight B. Davis writes with a clarity I had become used to seeing only in Scientific American. Key-words: super-micros, minis, families of chips: Motorola's 68xxx, Intel's 86 series, standardization efforts, buses, open/closed systems, UNIX vs CP/M vs MS-DOS. Mini-vendor reactions. 8 vs 16 vs 32 bit architectures. Shared-logic vs Network-in-a-box architecture. -------