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From: earle@jplopto.uucp (Greg Earle (40876))
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Letting goodies slip?
Message-ID: <4083@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 04:31:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 04:31:27 1987
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA
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Keywords: Sun-4  RISC

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  (-: ) ?

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