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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Data General Aviion 7000, 8000
Keywords: New Data General 88K machines
Message-ID: <6757@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 19:55:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.175502.22610@tscs.uucp> <6691@auspex.auspex.com> <1991Mar17.160430.7443@tscs.uucp>
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>>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.

When I said "pizza box", I meant "pizza box", as in "the sort of
cardboard box that pizzas come in", not "the sort of workstation box
that's roughly the size of the box pizzas come in".

When I said "CPU board", I meant "CPU board", as in "a large printed
circuit board holding the CPU chips and various other chips" (or, at
least, that I infer holds the CPU chips), not "the entire workstation or
server". 

The ads were in, as I remember, the San Francisco Chronicle, or perhaps
the San Jose Mercury News.

And yes, the CPU board really *was* in a pizza box.  It wasn't a
*system*, it was a *CPU board*; such little items as power supplies,
etc. were missing.