Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!mcnc!rti!mozart!sasrer From: sasrer@unx.sas.com (Rodney Radford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k Subject: Re: Aviion and others? Message-ID: <1990Oct01.151233.2650@unx.sas.com> Date: 1 Oct 90 15:12:33 GMT References: <1990Sep27.133938.7662@unx.sas.com> <41775@mips.mips.COM> Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Lines: 23 In article <41775@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes: >In article <1990Sep27.133938.7662@unx.sas.com> sasrer@unx.sas.com (Rodney Radford) writes: >>Other 88K vendors include Sanyo/Icon, Phillips Information (second source >>for Motorola), Encore and Unisys. There are also several other second >>source vendors, but I can't think of there names now. > > >Has Phillips actually announced an 88K system product? > (also, could somebody point me at something that talks about Phillips > being a second soruce for 88Ks? Is that true?) The article is in Electronic News, Monday, Sept 24, 1990, and begins "Motorola has signed an OEM agreement with Philips Information Systems under which the Dutch company will resell Motorola's line of mid-range computers based on the 88000 RISC microprocessor. Philips Information will resell and private-label in Europe Mtorola's MultiPersonal Computer line, ...." Maybe there was some confusion about my "second source for 88Ks' - I meant for the 88K based computers, not the actuall 88000 chips.... -- Rodney Radford DG/UX AViiON developer SAS Institute, Inc. sasrer@unx.sas.com (919) 677-8000 x7703 Box 8000, Cary, NC 27512