Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sgi!wdl1!bobw From: bobw@wdl1.UUCP (Robert Lee Wilson Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Request information on Harris machine (Nighthawk?) Message-ID: <3490019@wdl1.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 16:25:36 GMT References: <20734@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Lines: 22 As one who has some prior Harris connections but none now, here are my versions of the relations between the various recent (i.e. post 6024) Harris machines: There were some MassComp derived boxes, whose labels I've forgotten, but the Tahoe was derived from a CCI machine. As it evolved it became more of a Harris product, with redesigned hardware built by HCSD. An ECL version of the Tahoe was announced but never seen. The Nighthawk is the current product line. It is 68030 based, available with 1 to 8 processors. It is nominally compatible with the Tahoes at an OS level, in the sense that recompiling your source code will make it run on the new system, but the processor is totally different. The Nighthawk is selling now, and from what I hear is selling pretty well. It seems to me to be aimed pretty clearly at the simulation market which has always been Harris' strongest, with fast interrupt response, etc., and has had some significant sales in that area: I don't know how it may be doing in other markets. Regards, Bob Wilson Ford Aerospace (bobw@wdl1.fac.ford.com) Disclaimer: It is perhaps more important than usual to emphasize that Ford Aerospace has nothing to do with the above opinions!