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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SUN MMU design secrets
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Date: 7 Nov 90 04:05:06 GMT
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Sun's MMU design is no longer proprietary.  Sun has licensed LSI logic to
sell the chip set from the SPARCstation 1, which includes the Sun MMU.
The chip set sells for $999 in thousands, including the integer unit but not
the FPU (which is another $150).  This price includes the right to distribute
the SunOS binary with each machine.

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com