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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: What's a "tahoe"?
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Date: 7 Aug 88 17:47:39 GMT
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In article <3259@leo.UUCP> jack@leo.UUCP ( Jack Benkual) writes:
>In article <3420@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>> but I still havn't seen anybody explain what a "tahoe" is.
>Tahoe was the project name for the CCI Power 6/32 Superminicomputer
>... architecture 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.
Well, I also heard (from a combination of Byte and the USENET, I believe) that
development work moved from Vaxen to CCI machines because of the EXTREME 
difficulty of getting needed technical information out of DEC (at the
time, they may have changed now).

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