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From: mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Letting goodies slip?
Message-ID: <499@winchester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 13:24:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: winchest.499
Posted: Tue Jul  7 13:24:33 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 06:45:59 EDT
References: <127@spdcc.COM> <1090@killer.UUCP> <497@winchester.UUCP> <4083@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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Keywords: Sun-4  RISC

In article <4083@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes:
>In article <497@winchester.UUCP> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
>>SunRise / SPARC /Sun-4 should be announced this week,
>>and they ought to be over 20K Dhrystones, too.
>
>Alright, I'll bite.  What are `SunRise' & `SPARC'?  Is the Sun-4 a
>non vaporware entity now?  Is it a RISC based machine, as has been rumored?
>Can I take it from the context of John's article that this is true (guilt
>by association  (-: ) ?

Guilt by association??  At least short articles are in most of the rags
today, but this stuff has been common knowledge around the Valley for
a while, i.e., not goodies particularly.  As I understand it (Sun-ites
	can correct me if these are wrong, but):
	Sun-4	= name for the product line being announced this week
	SPARC = overall name for the architecture, regardless of the box
	SunRise = internal code name for the one that goes in a 3/260 box,
		i.e., each box has a separate name , like SunRay, SunTan, etc.
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