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From: fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott E. Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Data General Aviion 7000, 8000
Keywords: New Data General 88K machines
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.142721.4239@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Mar 91 14:27:21 GMT
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In article <1991Mar16.151948.14745@dg-rtp.dg.com> miller@ghost.rtp.dg.com (Mark Miller) writes:
>In article <1991Mar14.183029.11714@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>
>>  Can anyone from Data General elaborate on the
>>architecture/capabilities of these machines?  I looked in the paper
>>this morning, but there was no report, and only the picture of the
>>pizza box and what looked like a 4 processor 88K system.
>>
>
>	Since you asked ;-), here's some corporate press drival which
>	may answer your questions. . .
>
	[ stuff deleted ]
>              
>              o    The new AViiON quad-processor board, which
>                   includes four 25 MHZ Motorola 88100 RISC
>                   processors and eight of Motorola's new 88204
>                   cache/memory management chips totaling 512,000
>                   characters of cache memory.  The new
>                   quad-processor board also is available today
>                   as an upgrade to existing AViiON AV 5000 and
>                   AV 6000 servers.

Can anyone provide some comparison information between the 'old' 88200 and
this new 88204 chip?  Would they just happen to be pin-compatible?  I wouldn't
mind a larger cache! (apparently the 88204 has 64K, our 88200's only 16K)

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