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- From: wolff@erasmus.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
- Subject: Re: 960 XA/MX Questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan08.173711.14431@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1993Jan6.023733.5129@netcom.com> <MKAHN.93Jan7074846@hopi.sedona.intel.com> <1993Jan8.053615.22689@labtam.labtam.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 17:37:11 GMT
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- graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill) writes:
-
- >In article <MKAHN.93Jan7074846@hopi.sedona.intel.com>, mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn) writes:
- >> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
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- >> ]
- >> ] >As of this time, we have no plans to sell the XA/MX products
- >> ] >for commercial uses.
- >> ] Why not? (Technical, or Marketoon(TM), reasons?)
- >>
- >> Marketoon(tm) reasons to be exact. There is very little demand
- >> for products with the capabilities of the MX/XA outside of the
- >> military.
-
- > From this I gather that graphics (ie. Xterminals) and multi-media
- >do not amount to much demand. I guess this just means that the next generation
- >product won't be using 960s in them ...
-
- > Graeme Gill
-
- I am not sure what the 960MX/XA have that the 960CA doesn't, but our Xterminals
- seem to run just fine with the CA. As far as I know, there exists 960's
- with floating point coprocessors that are Military only like the MX/XA.
- Isn't the X protocol completely floating point free as to make a floating
- point coprocessor useless in such an environment?
-
-
- Roger.
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