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From: grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Gemini
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Date: 27 Jun 88 02:45:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald    Jun 26 21:45:00 1988


So, Electronic News and some other rag had articles on the P7 (aka gemini)
project at Intel, and the formation of BiiN (right name?), a jointly
owned Siemans and Intel company.

Any news about this? Speculations?

I'll start the ball rolling: why do the articles mention iSC, the people that
make the iPSC/2? Admittedly, the article said that iSC would *not* be a Biin
group; however, the Siemans effort is towards fault tolerent computing,
using multiprocessor systems. This would seem to coincide with the charter
of iSC.

Also, what's the group going to produce? If the latest Intel RISC ``micro
controller'' is an early spin-off, what else are they planning on releasing?
How can RISC & the 432 group coincide?