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Article #4259Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
From: Jeff Weinstein
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:15
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:15
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In article <1gbh7hINNn7v@agate.berkeley.edu>, nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver (The Weeniehead)) writes: > Also, the r4000 is a nice chip, (64 bit processor and everthing, > although it's pinouts make it look like a real porcupine), but is SGI > letting it out? SGI owns Mips now, and so they effectively controll the > supply of the r4000. Is there currently ANY non-sgi machine that uses the > r4000? This is absolutely untrue. R4000's are neither made by or sold by mips/sgi. They are manufactured by several semiconductor partners in Japan, US and Europe. You can buy them directly from any of the manufacturers. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. jsw@microunity.com Any opinions expressed above are mine.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!microunity!jsw From: jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein) Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT. Distribution: world Message-ID: <1992Dec12.021515.23549@microunity.com> Sender: usenet@microunity.com (news) Nntp-Posting-Host: rgb.microunity.com Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. References: <1gbh7hINNn7v@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:15:15 GMT Lines: 18