Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bbn!spdcc!eli From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: the real 801 machine! finally. Message-ID: <4178@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 11 Aug 89 05:19:23 GMT Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) Lines: 47 Organization: (Steve Dyer) writes: >(Steve Elias) writes: >>can anyone hazard a guess as to the price of the forthcoming >>801 supermips risc machine from Blue? > >What machine is that? :-) The trade papers this week are alluding to wink wink nudge nudge! i can't wait for this machine. i found 3 bugs in the logical design for the 801 processor when i worked for Blue. it was a great job and IBM is a great company, though they have a few questionable corporate policies now and then... [please pardon the tooting my own horn. Vermont is great, as is IBM!. almost as nice as California!] >>what is the price of a monochrome 70 with AIX? > >You might as well get a color VGA display, although I highly recommend i'm color blind. i really don't like color screens. they never look as good as mono screen for text. but greyscale VGA would be ok... >AIX for the PS/2 is pretty good stuff. If BSD is "Catholicism" and >System V is "Protestantism", then going to AIX PS/2 from BSD is like >a Catholic attending a high church Episcopal Mass... :-) oh ho! time for penance. >>how much do used old style superslow RTs go for? > >You know, the "superslow" ROMP was still about twice as fast as the >Vaxstation 2000, which is molasses by today's standards, but was pretty >impressive a few years ago. hey -- i liked what Blue did with the ROMP chip and the RT. the RT was supposed to contain an 801 processor, not a ROMP chip. i won't mention some of the possible reasons ROMP/RT was released instead. although... maybe i didn't do a good enough job on that 801 design verification project! [just kidding. i was a tiny gear in a really suave, enormous company.] -- ...... Steve Elias (eli@spdcc.com);(6178591389);(6178906844) {} /* */