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- From: nih-csl.dcrt.nih.gov!helix.nih.gov!rvenable@uunet.uu.net (Richard M. Venable)
- Subject: Re: Just what is in a Apollo 9000/730?
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:09:00 GMT
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- In order to clarify some things I said earlier, a couple of which were
- incorrect:
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- (1) I got the wrong name from somewhere; Douglas Voorhies is one the
- engineers on the DN10000, not Paul Bemis who is apparently a "marketing"
- person.
-
- (2) PA-RISC existed before the merger; just not in the same form. To
- quote from "Workstation" magazine:
-
- All three models use a new generation of the PA-RISC
- architecture that adds a small number of critical
- compound, or superscalar, instructions found in
- Apollo's PRISM architecture to the basic instruction
- set of HP 9000 Series 800.
-
- Other relevant quotes from an earlier issue of the same rag, attributed
- to Bob Weinberger (yet another marketing person):
-
- The Apollo Systems Division here in Chelmsford has been
- given strategic ownership for HP's workstation RISC program.
-
- HP previously has not had a specific workstation RISC program.
- HP's existing RISC workstations were all introduced as multi-
- user systems first and the retrofitted to take advantage of
- Motorola workstation graphics products developed in
- Fort Collins.
-
- So, my point is the 7xx series has benefitted greatly from once Apollo
- technical people, especially those involved in the PRISM architecture,
- whatever their names are. If only it came with DomainOS and a true ATR
- board...
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- Rick Venable | "Eschew
- FDA/CBER Biophysics Lab | Obfuscation"
- rvenable@helix.nih.gov | -- the Phantom Nerd
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