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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info.
Keywords: 3100, Advantedge 2000
Message-ID: <12989@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 Jan 89 14:02:50 GMT
References: <979@isieng.UUCP> <85330@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <85330@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:

| If you decide to buy a MIPS based processor, stick with one that is
| STANDARD comforming. Why make your life difficult. If you don't like
| the ISI, after a bit, you can go with someone else (MIPS, Ardent,
| etc.). If you don't like the 3100 upgrade choices, you're stuck with
| an OS AND processor change.

  Those of us who work with a number of vendors would be delighted to
have an LSB standard. Those damn PC won't go away, so machines like the
VAX give fewer "learning opportunities" than any other byte order
machines.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me