TFP announcement from SGI?

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From: Drew William Hess
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:48

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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).

-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu

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Subject: TFP announcement from SGI?
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