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From: wen-king@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (King Su)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Late, Lamented E&S-1 -- whats it look like?
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Date: 21 Nov 89 08:43:53 GMT
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In article <36652@apple.Apple.COM> baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes:
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<Does anyone have details about the E&S-1? What makes it different/special?
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We have got one of their prototype system sitting upstairs.  I
understand it is on a short term loan, and I think you can look at it
if you care to drop by.  I can't describe how it works because I have
never seen it fully operational myself.  From the sleek look of its
exterior and interior, however, it is quite obvious that a great deal
of engineering work has been put into this machine.

Although the individual processors are 32-bit custom-built, single-chip
micros, the front-end is a generic SUN workstation.  The machine contains
two enormous boxes, one hides the cage for the SUN and a bank of disks.
The other houses the CPUs and memory.  The system runs Mach, and that
means you can rlogin to it and run shell on it like you do on a regular
workstation.  This is a system that is aimed to compete at the level of
Sequent and BBN instead of the level of iPSC.  The last time I checked,
the machine contains 16 cpus, although it has room for more.
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