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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: Data General NEW AVIION machine
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.200554.26908@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 20:05:54 GMT
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In article <14337@encore.Encore.COM> jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen) writes:
>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


What is means is that if they SOLD multiprocessor rs6000s today the
resulting speed would be so much higher - and the product so much more
cost effective - than their mainframes that they simply refuse to do it.

Doug McDonald