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graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill) writes:

>In article <MKAHN.93Jan7074846@hopi.sedona.intel.com>, mkahn@hopi.sedona.intel.com (Mitch Kahn) writes:
>> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
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>> ]
>> ] >As of this time, we have no plans to sell the XA/MX products
>> ] >for commercial uses.
>> ] Why not?  (Technical, or Marketoon(TM), reasons?)
>> 
>> Marketoon(tm) reasons to be exact. There is very little demand
>> for products with the capabilities of the MX/XA outside of the
>> military. 

>	From this I gather that graphics (ie. Xterminals) and multi-media
>do not amount to much demand. I guess this just means that the next generation
>product won't be using 960s in them ...

>	Graeme Gill

I am not sure what the 960MX/XA have that the 960CA doesn't, but our Xterminals
seem to run just fine with the CA. As far as I know, there exists 960's
with floating point coprocessors that are Military only like the MX/XA.
Isn't the X protocol completely floating point free as to make a floating
point coprocessor useless in such an environment?


							Roger.
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