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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Longer quote, RPM-40 performance
Message-ID: <1695@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 88 03:23:20 GMT
References: <9679@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <9689@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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Keywords: DAIS, 14 MIPS, General Electric

In article <9689@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <9679@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> sunset!oconnor@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>| [... technical detail omitted ...]
>| 
>| Your dead on target. RPM40 is NOT a VAX-killer or SUN competitor. Here
>| at GE, we don't compare Massey-Fergussen 1500-horsepower tractors to
>| nitrobenzene-burning top-fuel funny cars.
>
>Mind you, there are some of us who would like this chip in a
>workstation, but it would have to be done in quantity to keep the cost
>of the chipset down.

I assume this must be humorous: it is obvious that this architecture was
designed to be a microcontroller, to run limited-size, embedded,
and definitely, non-UNIX applications.  It seems OK for that purpose,
but it obviously wasn't built for running UNIX or large applications
(and there's nothing wrong with that).
-- 
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