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From: jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4D4X0 ??
Summary: Isn't English wonderful
Message-ID: <101204@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 3 May 91 00:21:01 GMT
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In article <101106@sgi.sgi.com>, jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) writes:
> In article <1991May2.012911.10176@odin.corp.sgi.com>, jmb@patton.wpd.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
> > In article <100399@sgi.sgi.com>, jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) writes:
> > |> From: jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
> > |> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
> > |> Subject: Re: 4D4X0 ??
> > |> Message-ID: <100399@sgi.sgi.com>
> > |> Date: 30 Apr 91 04:26:16 GMT
> > |> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
> > |> 
> > |> In article <3985@uc.msc.umn.edu>, ken@uh.msc.umn.edu (Ken Chin-Purcell) writes:
> > |> > Jeremy Higdon writes:
> > |> > 
> > |> > > The 4D/400 family are 40 mhz R3000 machines.
> > |> > 
> > |> > Has either bus (Iris or VME) gotten faster?  We're hungry for
> > |> > throughput....
> > |> > 
> > |> 
> > |> The VME and MP buses run at the same speed, 
> 
> 					       ^ on the 4D/400 and the
> 					         4D/300 machines.
> 
						^ which is not to say that
						  the VME and MP buses run
						  at the same speed, but that
						  the MP bus on the 4D/400
						  runs at the same speed as
						  the MP bus on the 4D/300,
						  etc.