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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: COMPAQ PROPOSED SCALABLE I/O ARCHITECTURE
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.185600.15441@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec15.171554.2781@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> <1992Dec15.194637.10009@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec15.205639.25591@super.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:56:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.205639.25591@super.org> rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
- >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?
- >
- >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.
-
- How about QuikRing (Apple)?
-
- <No flames, please--all I've seen is the hype and none of the
- commentary--is there anything there besides hype and computer
- mags babbling happily?>
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