Path: utzoo!yunexus!unicus!craig
From: craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Does Definicon's SPARC board exist ?
Message-ID: <2574@unicus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 21:18:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: unicus.2574
Posted: Wed Apr 20 17:18:04 1988
Reply-To: craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley)
Organization: Unicus Software Inc., Toronto, Ont.
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Long ago, July 1987 to be exact, I saw this rumour in the news:

>Definicon has developed an IBM PC board using Sun's new "SPARC" 12 MIP RISC
>CPU, which would be *very* interesting to see in an Amiga 2000. Cost is $2995,
>or $4500 including Weitek 1.6 Mflop (single precision Linpack) floating point
>chips. The cost includes a C compiler derived from Sun's compiler. The board
>includes 1 Mbyte of 55ns RAM. It runs "on any IBM-PC under MS-DOS 2.0 or
>higher". Board is available 60 days ARO.
>
>"Definicon's proprietary software will run on the chip, providing a psuedo-
>Unix software layer. Unix-compatible applications programs can run above this
>layer in the RISC coprocessor. All I/O and system-level calls are passed to
>the host processor's Intel CPU." I have no information as to exactly what
>"psuedo-Unix" may mean.
>
>Definicon currently offers a 68020 board for the IBM PC, for somewhere around
>$1500 (I forget the exact price).

Does this beast exist ?  Seems to me that if it did, there should be some
in the wild out there...

Please reply by email to this address or craig@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu

	Craig Hubley, Unicus Corporation, Toronto, Ont.
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