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From: lewine@cheshirecat.rtp.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Data General NEW AVIION machine
Keywords: Data General, Avvion, 88000, 88K, MIPS, Motorola, UNIX
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.140915.3518@webo.dg.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 14:09:15 GMT
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In article <1118@spim.mips.COM>, mash@mips.com (John Mashey) writes:
|> Does anybody know, for sure:
|> 	a) Does DG, right now, have 88204s in there?
	YES.  They are not available in vast quantities, but we
	have enough to build a resonable number of machines.

|> 	b) Is there ANY performance data?  [The 117-mips number is NOT data.]
	YES.  We have a large number of real benchmarks.  We have been
	putting most of our effort into TPC-B, which is now about 100
	transactions per second.  SPECthruput is about 56.  List price
	starts under $100K.

|> 	c) What does the memory system look like on this?
	The 88K M-bus is interfaced to a bus which goes to memory
	boards.  Each memory board supports up to 192 Mb and you
	can have up to 4 boards for 768 Mb total.

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