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From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun Viking chip
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.042157.8525@bnr.ca>
Date: 21 Dec 90 04:21:57 GMT
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>In article <4865@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> dre@sun.Eng.Sun.COM (David R. Emberson) writes:
> 
> What's a Viking chip?

I think they may be trying to build a 100 MHz Sparc chip.
Probably full custom ECL. It could be fun, but then, not exactly
state of the art.