Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer

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From: Donald Lindsay
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:40

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cecchi@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.092355.29859@adobe.com>, zstern@adobe.com (Zalman Stern) writes:
>|> In particular, is it based on PowerPC or is IBM going to  
>|> have two 64 bit RISC architectures floating around.

>"IBM doesn't comment on un-announced machines"

The workstation group has tried to persuade the rest of IBM to use
its silicon. As long as the division making the AS/400 is profitable,
it will have the option of resisting this pressure.
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science

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