Prisma is gone

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From: Michael Z Slater
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 18:17

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I've hear from a few sources now that Prisma, which was attempting to
build a gallium arsenide SPARC machine, has had their plug pulled by
the VCs.  Anyone know what happened?  Does this have implications for
SPARC's "scalability" argument, or were the problems independent of
SPARC?

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com

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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
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Subject: Prisma is gone
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