Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?

[Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

In article <null-54E099.21304309062005@news-rdr-03.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
Greg Buchner  <null@invalid.com> wrote:
>In article <d8anur$oi0$1@panix3.panix.com>,
> reynolds@panix.com (Brian Reynolds) wrote:
>
>> No, it's not a Mac.  Steve Jobs was wrong.  Apple did not introduce
>> the first 64-bit PC.  Sun did with the SunBlade 100.
>
>The Sun Blade 100 is listed as a workstation.  Usually it seems that 
>there is a difference between workstations and PCs.
>
>It all depends on how you define things.

True.  The Sun Blade is a newcomer.  I have an AlphaPC LX164 for messing
about with.  This is over 5 years old, and although some would call
it a workstation, it's really a 64-bit PC.  It can run Windows NT 3.51
or 4, it's got PCI and ISA buses, it's got normal PC IDE controllers,
normal PC-style memory modules.  In what way isn't it a PC, other than
its 64 bit Alpha EV56 processor?  And mine isn't even a first generation
one either; it's a 533 MHz CPU, which is much faster than the first
AlphaPCs.

Tim