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From: jay@tscs.uucp (Jay Ts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Data General Aviion 7000, 8000
Keywords: New Data General 88K machines
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.160430.7443@tscs.uucp>
Date: 17 Mar 91 16:04:30 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.183029.11714@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Mar15.175502.22610@tscs.uucp> <6691@auspex.auspex.com>
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In article <6691@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>I don't think they fit into a pizza box.
>
>The CPU board apparently does; at least, in the ads, they'd fit one into
>a pizza box.  I assume all four 88Ks are on the board in question....

Which ads are you referring to?  Perhaps they were just showing an Aviion
workstation for aesthetic reasons??  The servers are rather boring to look at;
just big boxes.

The sales literature I have shows pictures of Aviion systems ranging
from pizza box workstation to 5-foot tall 6000-series server.  The 6000
series is expandable up to 208 Mb memory, 19 VME cards, 25.9 Gb disk, 3 (?)
tape drives and hundreds of async communications lines.  My guess is that
the 8000 server is similar to that, but higher performance, with the 7000
being more like the somewhat smaller 5000 series (about 2 feet high, but
still quite wide).

Of course, there's nothing keeping them from making a 117 MIPS workstation.
I expect we'll be seeing those too.