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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Prisma is gone
Message-ID: <24317@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 18:17:37 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I've hear from a few sources now that Prisma, which was attempting to
build a gallium arsenide SPARC machine, has had their plug pulled by
the VCs.  Anyone know what happened?  Does this have implications for
SPARC's "scalability" argument, or were the problems independent of
SPARC?

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com