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From: ed@braaten.doit.sub.org (Ed Braaten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 80960KA and KB
Summary: What does/did BiiN mean...
Message-ID: <622@braaten.doit.sub.org>
Date: 13 Mar 90 21:42:11 GMT
References: <1080@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: ed@braaten.doit.sub.org (Ed Braaten)
Organization: Systems Engineering, Intel GmbH, Munich, West Germany
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In article <1080@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU> mac@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (Alex Colvin) writes:
>> What does BiiN mean?
>
>well, since BiiT stands for "Because it is There", BiiN must be "... Not".
>
>Isn't it a Siemens/Intel venture to produce Ada systems?

It WAS a Siemens/Intel venture to produce fault-tolerant computer
systems.  It is no longer because Siemens/Intel decided that the
profits were too far out in the future.  As far as I know the name 
is NOT an acronym... 


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