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- From: jimu@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au (James Uther)
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations (MIPS R4400)
- Reply-To: jimu@orthanc.xa.au.oz.au (James Uther)
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:51:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.015101.11828@cs.su.oz.au>
- Keywords: RISC
- References: <1992Oct31.234604.21078@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Nov2.154050.23454@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Nov3.035949.23338@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <1992Nov5.061437.24266@RedBrick.COM>
- Sender: news@cs.su.oz.au (News)
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- In article <1992Nov5.061437.24266@RedBrick.COM>, jfr@RedBrick.COM () writes:
- |> Dream on. For my money, there is no way Jobs and crew are going to
- |> go with a processor from a once-almost-bankrupt now-acquired company
- |> which is a subsidiary of an arch-competitor (SGI). The risc is way to
- |> high :-) (sorry for the BAD pun)
-
- I read recently that someone has produced a R4400 clone, so going with the
- R4400 would be as good as going with sparc (except of course that the R4400
- is a better chip). Multi-vendor, RISC, etc.
- Anyone know anything more?
-
- |> Jon Rosen
-
- james
-