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- From: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
- Subject: Re: Just what is in a Apollo 9000/730?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.215020.17473@alw.nih.gov>
- Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
- Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
- References: <1992Nov13.222325.9880@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Nov14.052216.28745@alw.nih.gov> <Bxpw1x.KGH@scd.hp.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:50:20 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <Bxpw1x.KGH@scd.hp.com> vinoski@ch.apollo.hp.com (Stephen Vinoski) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.052216.28745@alw.nih.gov> rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable) writes:
- >>They use a RISC architecture (called PA-RISC) designed by Paul Bemis, who did
- >>the Apollo DN10000 RISC processor; Convex has licensed the chip with plans to
- >>build some parallel systems.
- >
- >Are you kidding?
- >
- >Paul Bemis is a marketing person. He had no part in the technical
- >design of either of these RISC architectures.
- >
- >I'm sure he would be flattered by your outrageous claims, however. :-)
- >
- >-steve
- >
-
- Gosh, I guess all that vendor literature and trade press stuff wasn't
- legitimate then. Suppose you tell us the REAL story?
-
-