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- From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
- Subject: Re: COMPAQ PROPOSED SCALABLE I/O ARCHITECTURE
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.205639.25591@super.org>
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- References: <1992Dec15.171554.2781@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> <1992Dec15.194637.10009@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:56:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.194637.10009@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
- >You guys ever thought of licensing TurboChannel from DEC and building a
- >Pentium box/server around it?
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- TurboChannel is a dog.
-
- Actually, seems to me they could look at SCI. Except they want low cost.
- But if the CMOS chips for SCI pan out, maybe they will meet the cost
- range.
- ron
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