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From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: R/6000 benchmarks available from anyone??
Message-ID: <23124.264001c1@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 15:02:38 GMT
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In article <10176@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, kahn@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Shahin Kahn) writes:
> In article <38225@mips.mips.COM< cprice@mips.COM (Charlie Price) writes:
> <In article <22441.25f76f2e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> <>Are there any RC6280s (R/6000 boxes) in the real world? (Or at Mips
> 
> Didn't CDC announce a R6000 based machine??
> 
> <>I'm specing out is top-of-the-line Silicon Graphics multi-processor
> 
> Has SGI announced that they will have an ECL box??  The R6000 is ECL isn't it?

Yeah, R/6000 is ECL but no, SGI hasn't announced anything.  What I'd *hoped*
was going to be SGI's R/6000 announcement was their 33Mhz R/3000.

I'd been assuming that *everybody* with Mips CPU-based systems would
not only have R/6000 boxes in the works by now but *cheap* R/6000
boxes, lest IBM eat their lunch with the IBM R_*S*/6000 M320s.  But
this is not happening. Apparently, R/6000 implementation is more
hassle than I, at least, thought it was going to be.  Too bad.  I *DO*
want 7+ Mflops/CPU;  I *DO NOT* want IBM, unless there's no alternative.

Christopher Gunn	Molecular Graphics & Modeling Lab
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