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- From: zstern@adobe.com (Zalman Stern)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Multi uP P5 systems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.233948.19563@adobe.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 23:39:48 GMT
- References: <n2vn=9h.erb@netcom.com>
- Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
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- In article <n2vn=9h.erb@netcom.com> erb@netcom.com (Elizabeth R. Brown)
- writes:
- [Rumour of 4 way '586/P5 board running an unknown operating system.]
- There was a blurb in Infoworld the other day saying that Sequent has demoed
- Microsoft's NT running on one of their 8 or 16 processor 486 boxes. It isn't
- a very big leap of imagination to assume that Microsoft had early access to
- 586 specs and NT ran (or will run) on fairly early 586 samples. Same holds
- true for 586 MP hardware.
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