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Article #5120Re: DECstation 3100 info.
From: William E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1989 14:02
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1989 14:02
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In article <85330@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
| If you decide to buy a MIPS based processor, stick with one that is
| STANDARD comforming. Why make your life difficult. If you don't like
| the ISI, after a bit, you can go with someone else (MIPS, Ardent,
| etc.). If you don't like the 3100 upgrade choices, you're stuck with
| an OS AND processor change.
Those of us who work with a number of vendors would be delighted to
have an LSB standard. Those damn PC won't go away, so machines like the
VAX give fewer "learning opportunities" than any other byte order
machines.
--
bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
{uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info. Keywords: 3100, Advantedge 2000 Message-ID: <12989@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 19 Jan 89 14:02:50 GMT References: <979@isieng.UUCP> <85330@sun.uucp> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 16