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9522: [MUD-Dev] Re: processors

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From: Mik Clarke <mikclrk@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:23:40 +0000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Between these little RISC (or intel CISC) chips, there's not a lot of
difference.  Most muds need integer arithmetic, pointer manipulation and
text manipulation (mainly moving it around).  The common chips tend to
be good at the first 2 and so-so at the third.  If you want to get
something that good at all of them, you need something with a 390
instruction set (IBM CMOS technology designed for BIG databases) - but
they cost a lot of money...

Mik
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