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From: rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info. (and SPARCulation?)
Summary: not so fast there!
Message-ID: <13737@ico.ISC.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 89 19:55:21 GMT
References: <979@isieng.UUCP> <85330@sun.uucp> <85552@sun.uucp>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp, Boulder, CO
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In article <85552@sun.uucp>, khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
> I don't have a list of licensees, but for SPARC licensees SUNOS and
> all the compilers are available.
> 
> Three companies which come to mind are metaflow, prisma, and
> soulborne. All are high end machines (up to 250MIPS). 

Hey, wait a minute.  Prisma is not a high-end (up to 250 MIPS) machine.  It
**will be** when they get it out.  I'm not saying this to take a shot at
Prisma, mind you--they've got a good group of people and they're serious
about it, but the machine doesn't exist yet, nor is it right around the
corner.  Let's keep present tense and future tense separate.

Solbourne (note spelling) is not a 250 MIPS machine by any stretch of the
imagination.  Their just-announced (Monday) product is claimed to be "10 to
17 MIPS".

OK, I took two shots (straightening things out on the Colorado-based
companies) - so what's metaflow?  (Present or future, high-end or not?)
-- 
Dick Dunn      UUCP: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd           (303)449-2870
   ...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.