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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
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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...

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