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From: zs01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zalman Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Use of R/6000 (Was: R/6000 benchmarks available from anyone??)
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Date: 5 May 90 03:10:30 GMT
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1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
[Comments about cheap R6000 based workstation.]

The vague information I recall is that the R6000 is 5 chips and requires
ECL RAMS for the first level cache.  This seems expensive and difficult to
implement in a workstation package. Hopefully, it will drive the price on
R3000 machine down though. I think it is more interesting from the
workstation point of view to think about the next single chip MIPS
implementation (R4000?).

Has MIPS started calling their machines/processors R/?000 or is this merely
a typo picked up from the product name for the IBM RIOS? Until recently, I
always saw R6000 or RC6280 without slashes. It would be nice if we could
keep the MIPS processor as R6000 and the RIOS as RS/6000 so they are easier
to tell apart. (Then again, I hate it when Dow Jones calls Hewlett Packard
"Hewlett" instead of using the whole name or "HP.")

Sincerely,
Zalman Stern
Internet: zs01+@andrew.cmu.edu     Usenet: I'm soooo confused...
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