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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ABIs and the futurrrr of UNIX(tm)
Message-ID: <1938@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 88 03:22:51 GMT
References: <431@micropen> <7534@brl-smoke.ARPA> <20913@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <20913@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Hey, I hear that UniSys has agreed to use the SPARC in future
>products.

Whoa! UniSys signed a license for SPARC, which means you pay $X to get
the design information.  Here is a useful quote from Computerworld,
March 14, 1988, page 7:

`"We have just signed a license agreement, but we haven't specifically
made a determination what to do.  We are looking at a high-performance
workstation and a large UNIX system," said Fred Meier, vice-president
of corporate program management at Unisys.
Unisys examined other reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architectures
and may yet commit to other RISC designs as well, Meier added.'
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