Alpha CPUs, was Re: [rescue] i860 Success

[Andrew Weiss]

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