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- From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess)
- Subject: TFP announcement from SGI?
- Message-ID: <dhess.728160535@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: sgi arch tfp mips
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:48:55 GMT
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- The San Jose Mercury News had a small article today re: SGI's announcement
- of their new supercomputers. They also mentioned that the Power Challenge
- systems use the TFP, which is, I believe, based on an earlier MIPS design
- (R4000, I suppose) but with a floating point unit on steroids. Has SGI
- made any formal announcement of the TFP? I believe that SGI did most of
- the development on the TFP in-house before acquiring MIPS, so is SGI/MIPS
- going to make it available to third parties as they do with the Rx000
- series?
-
- On a related note, I thought that the new supercomputers had been dubbed
- "Onyx," but the article makes no mention of this name. Is the family
- of supercomputers called "Challenge" and "Power Challenge," and the first
- member of the family called "Onyx," or what? I'm unclear on exactly
- what was announced yesterday after reading the SJMN article (wouldn't be the
- first time).
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- dhess@cs.stanford.edu
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