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From: jack@leo.UUCP ( Jack Benkual)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What's a "tahoe"?
Summary: What is Tahoe?
Message-ID: <3259@leo.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 15:48:33 GMT
References: <6341@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <60859@sun.uucp> <474@m3.mfci.UUCP> <3420@phri.UUCP>
Organization: CCI CPD (VLSI Development), Irvine CA
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In article <3420@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> 
> 	For months I've been listening to people talking about "4.3-tahoe"
> but I still havn't seen anybody explain what a "tahoe" is.
> -- 
> Roy Smith, System Administrator
> Public Health Research Institute
> {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
> "The connector is the network"

Tahoe was the project name for the CCI Power 6/32 Superminicomputer available
since 1985. It has an architecture very similar to VAX/780 and probably that
and the higher performance (8 VAX MIPS in 1985) was the reason that Berkeley
released 4.3-Tahoe.
ICL ( Clan4-7) and Unisys ( 7000 series) sales it as an OEM.
Harris (HCX-7) got the technology and manufacturing rights from CCI.
It comes with the different configurations and performance range of 3-15 MIPS. 
They are probably 1700 systems installed world wide manufactured by CCI.

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Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!  | jack Benkual @ uunet!ccicpg!leo!jack
                               | CCI Computers (nee Computer Consoles Inc)