Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dmk3b1!dmk
From: dmk@dmk3b1.UUCP (David Keaton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Prisma is gone
Message-ID: <480@dmk3b1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 08:01:12 GMT
References: <24317@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: dmk@dmk3b1.UUCP (David Keaton)
Organization: DMK, Colorado Springs, CO
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In article <24317@cup.portal.com> mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) writes:
>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

     The problems were related to technology and funding.  They were
independent of SPARC.
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					David Keaton
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