Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!prism!dali!ken From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: <16031@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 29 Oct 90 21:14:00 GMT References: <15497@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <1990Oct25.183519.19324@iconsys.uucp> <42487@mips.mips.COM> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Reply-To: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Organization: The House Of Fun Lines: 32 In article <42487@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes: >In article <1990Oct25.183519.19324@iconsys.uucp> malc@iconsys.uucp (Malcolm Weir) writes: >.... >>Finally, remember that not all of the big players in the computer industry >>have announced a RISC product/strategy/loyalty. OK, so NCR dropped out of 88K, >>in favor of parallel '486s (Yukk, bletch...), but we're still waiting for >>Unisys and several of the non-U.S. vendors (such as Bull, Olivetti, etc.) >>are still to commit (I think). > >Bull ships MIPS-based boxes. > And Olivetti ships i860 boxes, though I dunno if that really counts (they are i486 motherboards with i860 co-processors). Other than that, Olivetti hasn't, to my very incomplete knowledge, even announced interest in other RISC architectures. I'd like to know if this is otherwise. >2) Dropped out: Tektronix, Stratus, Everex/Opus (maybe), NCR ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | I don't think this is anywhere near official. However, Sun, LSI Logic and Opus have been plowing a lot of effort into the SPARCkit clones, and the last Opus person I talked to (circa 5 weeks ago) mentioned that I "probably wouldn't want to buy and 88k Personal Mainframe" (88k plugin card for ISA bus machines). They would really like you to buy SPARC stuff... -- ken seefried iii "A snear, a snarl, a whip that ken@dali.gatech.edu stings...these are a few of my favorite things..."