MIPS R6000 wanted !

Robert Skinner robert at texas.asd.sgi.com
Fri Feb 1 10:20:33 AEST 1991


In article <uh311ae.665327026 at sunmanager>,
uh311ae at sunmanager.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges) writes:
|> Hey, 
|> lately, my professor came by and told me that he has a brand-new
MIPS-level-II
|> R6000 processor running at unimaginable MHz`s with an overall
performance about
|> THREE TIMES AS MUCH as my 210GTXB. When will SGI deliver this cookie
? Unipro-
|> cessor CPU speed has been a trouble to me during molecular modeling.
|> 
|> Cheers ! rick at vee.lrz-muenchen.de

The IBM R6000 uses a propriety RISC cpu.  The cpu is not made by MIPS.

SGI is (not surprisingly) working on a faster cpu, but I wouldn't presume 
to tell you when it might be available, even if I knew.

Robert Skinner
robert at sgi.com

	When in doubt, use brute force.
 
		- Ken Thompson



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