Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!erb1!erb1.engr.wisc.edu!simmons From: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu (Kim Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Risc rumors and Tao7 Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 21:05:40 GMT References: <1991Mar8.094302.2815@ohm.york.ac.uk> Sender: news@erb1.engr.wisc.edu Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin,Madison., NEEP Department Lines: 22 In-reply-to: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk's message of 8 Mar 91 09:43:02 GMT You can get a Decstation 5000 (which uses the R3000 MIPS chip) for between $10,000 and $15,000 educational. We get a Decstation 5000 with 24 Mbytes of memory, one Gigabyte hard disk, 19 inch color monitor, and i think a graphics card (with a i860 chip i think, though i'm not sure exactly which card we got) for a little under $20,000. This should give you some idea of pricing. The chip that NeXT is interested in, if they are indeed interested in a MIPS Risc chip would be the MIPS R4000. Initial release will be about 50 MIPS, with a quick ramp up to 100 MIPS, superpipelining (something like 2 instructions for each clock cycle), and it's a 64 bit chip which has the ability to run 32 bit applications side by side with the 64 bit applications. If there is any interest i can post a summary of what i dig up on this chip. Of course this might all be i bit premature (and probably is). -- =============================================================================== Internet: simmons@rigel.neep.wisc.edu Othernet: simmons@hoofers.lake.mendota --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- According to the HitchHikers guide to the galaxy, the one thing we *cannot* afford to have is a sense of perspective. ===============================================================================