Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!xenlink!blender!root From: root@blender.UUCP (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Info wanted on the 25 MIP <$10K IBM Unix box Summary: rumor... Message-ID: <86@blender.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 13:54:07 GMT References: <2462ANKGC@CUNYVM> <30971@cornell.UUCP> <5834@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Organization: Some apartment in downtown Calgary Lines: 21 What I've heard about the new IBM box is kind of interesting though I'm not sure of the validity of it... I've heard it from several different sources however so it may be true... What I've heard is that there are actually 2 new machines announced. One is a <$10K desktop RT with aboUt the same compute power as a 6151-115.. I guess sort of an RT-Jr.... Then another machine which will sport MicroChannel instead of standard AT bus architecture in order to support the multi-processor ability. Apparently the machine is quite fast with one processor, and up to 4 extra processors can be added.. The 25 mip figure was bounced around but I don't know if that was for all processor's installed or 25 mips/processor... Although mips are sort of misleading for a RISC processor I would imagine. Apollo's DN10000 is supposed to be 25Mips/processor.... However misleading that is with respect to real performance... Anyways, that's what I've heard... -- UUCP: herb@blender.UUCP || ...calgary!xenlink!blender!{herb||root} ICBM: 51 03 N / 114 05 W 'Objects in mirror are larger than they appear'