Re: DECstation 3100 info.

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1989 04:23

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In article <13508@jumbo.dec.com> jg@jumbo.UUCP (Jim Gettys) writes:
>Digital has produced 6 additional implementations of the same VAX
>architecture, fully binary compatible with each other, to go along with
>the three which precedes Sun's existance...

Well, "fully" if you discount the mishmash of four or five different
floating-point formats,	not all of which exist on all VAXen last I heard...
-- 
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-Eugene Cernan, the Moon, 1972 | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info.
Message-ID: <1989Jan17.042349.5379@utzoo.uucp>
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