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- From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: NRW- coming soon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.164233.17568@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 16:42:33 GMT
- References: <1gq5o9INNe2g@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
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- In article <1gq5o9INNe2g@hamblin.math.byu.edu> bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill
- Smith) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec16.235608.10172@dvorak.amd.com> rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com
- >>(Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) writes:
- >>> In article <Dec16.161340.46031@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- >>> randall@redfish.atmos.colostate.edu (Dave Randall) writes:
- >>> >>In article <1giql5INNo5@hamblin.math.byu.edu> bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu
- >>(Bill
- >>> >>Smith) writes:
- >>> >>> Well, I'll pass another rumor on from a friend. While the
- >>> >>> 88110-flavor box has been dropped, another design based
- >>> >>> on it appears to be the version they will release. It has
- >>> >>> a multiprocessing feature with plug-in sites for several
- >>> >>> cpu's, you just have another plugged in if you want it. The
- >>> >>> alpha is not going to be the chip they use, it will also
- >>> >>> not be P5. No waiting for 68060 either. Not R4000-etc.
- >>> >>> Not Sparc. Not IBM. Want to take a guess what's driving
- >>> >>> it?
- >>> >>
- >>> >>That leaves HP. Yippee!
- >>>
- >>> Bzzzzzt
- >>>
- >>> The 601 (PowerPC)
- >>> --
- >>
- >>The 601(s!) won't do multiprocessing without unreleased additional
- >>hardware. You'd have to wait for the 620.
- >>
- >>-Bill
-
- Cool...so when's it due ??????
-
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