🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov8.015101.11828@cs.su.oz.au> jimu@orthanc.xa.au.oz.au (James Uther) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.061437.24266@RedBrick.COM>, jfr@RedBrick.COM () writes:
>|>   Dream on.  For my money, there is no way Jobs and crew are going to
>|>   go with a processor from a once-almost-bankrupt now-acquired company 
>|>   which is a subsidiary of an arch-competitor (SGI).  The risc is way to
>|>   high :-) (sorry for the BAD pun) 
>
>I read recently that someone has produced a R4400 clone, so going with the 
>R4400 would be as good as going with sparc (except of course that the R4400
>is a better chip). Multi-vendor, RISC, etc.
>Anyone know anything more?
>
>|>   Jon Rosen
>
>	james

MIPS stuff is also made by Integrated Device Technology Inc., LSI Logic Corp.,
NEC Electronics Corp., Performance Semiconductor Corp., Siemens Components Inc.,
and Toshiba Corp (this from the MIPS press announcement.)  Folklore has it
that MIPS put too much into the R6000, which is how they got into trouble.
That effort (like the ECL SPARC and DGs ECL 88100) appear to be severely dead now.
SGI isnt much of a competitor to NeXT in that SGI makes virtually nothing
under $10K and NeXT makes virtually nothing over $10K (for a base box.)
The R4000 line will need generate money to fund the kind of chip development
it will need to stay competative; NeXT can provide some of that volume as it
grows.  Then one starts to speculate about a NeXT/SGI hybrid......  -Steve
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