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From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Data General NEW AVIION machine
Message-ID: <14337@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 18 Mar 91 18:39:35 GMT
References: <40198@cup.portal.com> <12391@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jcallen@encore.Com (Jerry Callen)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In article <12391@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>[It's also a way to stay ahead of the IBM RS/6000, which reportedly
>won't be multiprocessor until 1995 or 1996.]

Hmmmmmm, reported by whom? IBM has been building multiprocessor mainframes
for a long time, and it would really surprise me if it takes them 4 years
to build an MP RS/6000.

But then I don't work for IBM, so what do I know?

-- Jerry Callen
   jcallen@encore.com