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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
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Subject: Re: Sun Rivals Blast SPARCstation 2 in UNIX TODAY!
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In article <733@brchh104.bnr.ca> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
   [...]
   I wonder why DEC didn't comment on the failure of MIPS to produce an ECL
   MIPS chip, leading to the cancellation of the DECStation 6000, and forcing
   DEC to turn to yet another architecture, its internal E-VAX architecture.
   [...]

MIPS didn't fail to produce an ECL MIPS chip (the R6000).  They failed to
produce it in a high enough yield soon enough to satisfy DEC.  MIPS is
shipping R6000 based systems (the 6280) and claims to have worked out the
production problems (time will tell...).

George Hartzell			                  (303) 492-4535
 MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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