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From: jesup@pawl18.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Longer quote, RPM-40 performance
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Date: 29 Feb 88 10:52:58 GMT
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Keywords: DAIS, 14 MIPS, General Electric

In article <9679@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> sunset!oconnor@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>The speaker, I think, was David K. Lewis of GE's Electronic Laboratory,
>one of the system architects and the head of the CPU effort. Let's be
>sure credit is given where due. (THIS IS NOT A FLAME, REALLY !)

	Dave is REALLY sharp.  Even if he does have an English accent. :-)

>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.

	Awww.  Not that it _couldn't_ be a sun-competitor.....  But I would
rather doubt GE using it for that, though anything's possible, especially
if one has enough money to interest GE.

>    Dennis O'Connor			     oconnor@sunset.steinmetz.UUCP ?

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