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 (Steve Dyer) writes:
>(Steve Elias) writes:
>>can anyone hazard a guess as to the price of the forthcoming
>>801 supermips risc machine from Blue?  
>
>What machine is that?  :-)  The trade papers this week are alluding to

wink wink nudge nudge!  i can't wait for this machine.
i found 3 bugs in the logical design for the 801 processor
when i worked for Blue.  
it was a great job and IBM is a great company, though they
have a few questionable corporate policies now and then...
[please pardon the tooting my own horn.  Vermont is great, as is IBM!.
 almost as nice as California!]

>>what is the price of a monochrome 70 with AIX?
>
>You might as well get a color VGA display, although I highly recommend

i'm color blind.  i really don't like color screens.  they never look
as good as mono screen for text.  but greyscale VGA would be ok...

>AIX for the PS/2 is pretty good stuff.  If BSD is "Catholicism" and
>System V is "Protestantism", then going to AIX PS/2 from BSD is like
>a Catholic attending a high church Episcopal Mass... :-)

oh ho!  time for penance.

>>how much do used old style superslow RTs go for?
>
>You know, the "superslow" ROMP was still about twice as fast as the
>Vaxstation 2000, which is molasses by today's standards, but was pretty
>impressive a few years ago.

hey -- i liked what Blue did with the ROMP chip and the RT.

the RT was supposed to contain an 801 processor, not a ROMP chip.  
i won't mention some of the possible reasons ROMP/RT was released instead.

although...

maybe i didn't do a good enough job on that 801 design verification project!
[just kidding.  i was a tiny gear in a really suave, enormous company.]
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