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From: astevens@acorn.co.uk (Ashley Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
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Date: 30 Oct 90 18:39:02 GMT
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In article <42483@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:

->>mash> As is well-known, we are working hard with our colleagues at
->>mash> B.I.T. to improve yields on the ECL chips.
->>
->>In the latest issue of Byte I read that BIT have *dumped* the R6000
->>development. Am I hallucinating? .....
->Yes, or Byte is.

Somewhere (I think it was either the latest issue of PCW, or the Computer
Guardian) I read that BIT had dropped the development of a special version
of the R6000, for DEC, and that the normal version was delayed.

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