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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP Precision Architecture and Hitachi
Summary: HP and CMOS
Keywords: HP-PA, second source, deals, deals, deals
Message-ID: <582@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 89 02:46:08 GMT
References: <1678@zen.co.uk>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
Lines: 15

In article <1678@zen.co.uk>, vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin) writes:
> I have been informed (and thus would like to share my mis-information)
> that HP and Hitachi have signed an agreement whereby HP get hold of
> some of Hitachi's chip fabrication technology in exchange for
> Precision Architecture.

My DEC rag said that a CMOS chip for HP-PA running about 100 MIPS
would be in production around 1992!  Imaging a 4 processor 8xx series
machine running the Apollo multi-processing software :-)

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