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From: preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Is MIPS in Trouble?
Keywords: MIPS, Trouble, DEC
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.150742.7002@rice.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 90 15:07:42 GMT
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In article <1098@dg.dg.com> uunet!root writes:
>The October 29th issue of Electronic News had some interesting articles:

>   o   On page 13 there is an article saying that Stardent is
>       dropping MIPS in favor of the Intel i860 RISC.

My rumour source says the new Stardent boxes have the same
MIPS parts as before and have simply replaced the old custom vector
hardware with an i860.  Makes a lot of sense to me...

-- 
Preston Briggs				looking for the great leap forward
preston@titan.rice.edu