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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: MIPS, Compaq and Microsoft in bed - NYT story
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Date: 11 Feb 91 18:09:16 GMT
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In article <UbhCgwu00VpcACYYMo@andrew.cmu.edu>, mh2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
>Microsoft's risc effort, and plentiful mention of the r4000.  
>In other words, none of it is hypothetical, though all of it
>is probably unfinished.  Microsoft, for instance, had their stuff 
>running on r3000 hardware over a year ago.

>what's interesting is the prominence 
>of Compaq rather than IBM in this matter.

Weelll, yes and no. Compaq has, in some cases, been a standards-setter in
the (Intel) PC-based world; only recently has IBM been swinging back in
technology. I find it MORE interesting that Compaq has, along with Sony,
chosen to use MIPS chips, while Toshiba and CompuAdd have thrown in their hands
with SPARC. 

 Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park
	        *       Ray Kaplan for DECUS president     *
                          SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU