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- From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
- Subject: Re: Is Sparc out of Gas?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.081616.14308@irfu.se>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:16:16 GMT
- References: <lg6j1iINN5dj@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <jdd.723233663@cdf.toronto.edu> <1784@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
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- In article <1784@niktow.canisius.edu> pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
- >In article <jdd.723233663@cdf.toronto.edu>, jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes:
- >> In <1767@niktow.canisius.edu> pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
- >>
- >> Everybody's going to have to do MP eventually. Sun chose to do it now rather
- >> than later.
- >>
- > The other vendors decided to defer ??? And "... do MP eventually" ??? A
- > lot of VAX 6nnn, DECsystem 58nn, SGI ____ users, to name a few, would be
- > surprised to hear that...
-
- So would HP, who had MP alrady in their HP9000/500 UNIX boxes of 1983/84
- vintage! Interestingly enough, the underlying OS on the 500 series was called
- SUN!
-
- Bo
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