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From: mlight@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Mike_Light)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP Precision Architecture and Hitachi
Message-ID: <1320008@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 89 14:58:16 GMT
References: <1678@zen.co.uk>
Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
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>I have been informed (and thus would like to share my mis-information)
>that HP and Hitachi have signed an agreement whereby HP get hold of
>some of Hitachi's chip fabrication technology in exchange for
>Precision Architecture.

Ayup, there was an official newsgram on it, too, stating the Hitachi
effort was to produce a 100 mip processor in the 1992 timeframe.

> Way to go HP!

ditto.

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