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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Where is nroff?? (plus compiler question)
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <97498@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov13.173512.28632@news.acns.nwu.edu> <sasnpb4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Nov18.205218.25687@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 23:19:39 GMT
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- In <1992Nov18.205218.25687@u.washington.edu> dittrich@carson.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich) writes:
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- | olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
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- | >Only the r4k machines (from sgi; it applies to r6k MIPS machines
- | ^^^
- | R6000? Do you mean R3000, or did the merger with MIPS move the schedule
- | ahead by two generations? :-)
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- The r6000 chipset (not a single chip micro) is an ECL chipset,
- and was primarily done for some MIPS OEM customers. CDC was far
- and away the biggest (and may have been the only non-MIPS user
- of r6000's, for all I know). It came out before the r4k, and
- is the mips2 architecture. That is why the r4k is the mips3
- architecture.
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