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- From: bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras)
- Subject: Re: 100 MHz. 64-bit.???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.012535.1878@msi.com>
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- Reply-To: bill@west.msi.com
- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:25:35 GMT
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- (U35805@uicvm.uic.edu) wrote:
- : From the PC Magazine I have just got (Jan. 26 1993. vol-12
- : #2). On page 356 the ad from Tangent Computer. They advertise
- : a 100 MHz. 64-bit system with word like this. (Ready-to-run
- : Windows NT. UNIX and UnixWare -2X faster than a 486-66! A
- : Software developer's dream machine!) It has a 100 MHZ 64-bit
- : processor, it even has a 64-bit localbus video card.($9,995)
- : It is the next genaration P5 from Intel? Or other chip
- : maker? Anyone out there heard it or have their hand on one
- : of this?
-
- If you look closely, it doesn't mention OS/2 as an operating system to
- run. This looks like a machine based on either the R4000 chip from MIPS
- or the Alpha chip from DEC. I would guess the former.
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