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From: sar0@cbnewsl.att.com (stephen.a.rago)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Is the 3b2 dead?
Keywords: support
Message-ID: <1990Jun17.142734.15844@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 17 Jun 90 14:27:34 GMT
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In article <13119@ulysses.att.com>, cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) writes:
> Face it, floating point on the 3b's always was terrible.  Why do you
> need fast floating point on a phone switch?  By the time Summit
> figured out that the thing wasn't being used as a phone switch any
> more, it was too late to add decent floating point.  Same thing for
> virtural memory hardare.  The original machines had fairly good VM for
> swapping based systems, but it took a long time for them to get the
> MMU right for paging.

The 3B2 hardware was designed in Indian Hill, not Summit.
Summit just put UNIX System V on it.

Steve Rago
sar@attunix.att.com