Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!spot From: spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: R4000 "announcement" Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 91 22:29:01 GMT References: <90@shasta.Stanford.EDU> Sender: netnews@cs.cmu.edu (USENET News Group Software) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: jackk@shasta.Stanford.EDU's message of 7 Feb 91 19:03:34 GMT In article <90@shasta.Stanford.EDU> jackk@shasta.Stanford.EDU (jackk) writes: I read in a recent EE Times article that there are no working chips yet for the R4000. This type of pre-announcement is disturbingly reminiscent of IBM's "pre-announcement" of the 360/95 before there were even lab prototypes running. MIPS has made it very clear that this is an announcement of an architecture and not a product. -- IBM Scott Draves Intel spot@cs.cmu.edu Microsoft