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From: rec@dg.dg.com (Robert Cousins)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 88K vs. MIPS vs. SPARC vs. 386
Message-ID: <150@dg.dg.com>
Date: 2 May 89 17:09:22 GMT
References: <GRUNWALD.89May1131736@flute.cs.uiuc.edu> <13089@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: rec@dg.UUCP (Robert Cousins)
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In article <13089@paris.ics.uci.edu> roy@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (John M.A. Roy) writes:
>In article <GRUNWALD.89May1131736@flute.cs.uiuc.edu>, grunwald@flute writes:
>|Does anyone, other than Data General, make an 88K box *available now* that
>|runs a reasonable UNIX (i.e. should be able to run Berkelyish code). Has
>
>FYI, my rumor mill has it the Data General is dropping the 88K as their 
>CPU and are going to MIPS.  This is a pretty reliable source.
>
>John M.A. Roy (714) 856-5039
>ICS Dept., Univ. Calif., Irvine CA 92714
>Internet: roy@ics.uci.edu

I can state unequivocally that this rumor is false.  DG likes the 88K
and plans on staying with it.  Why would we want to change?

Robert Cousins
Dept. Mgr, Workstation Dev't
Data General Corporation

Speaking for myself alone.