In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/25/2007
at 09:42 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>801 was originally targeted (very) low-end ... ROMP chip was targeted
>to be used in a displaywriter follow-in ... when that project was
>killed, the group looked around for something to save the effort ...
>and hit on the unix workstation market (with the displaywriter
>follow-on morphing into unix workstation). lots of unix workstation
>market place is very numerical and power hungry ... somewhat as a
>result ... the followon to ROMP for that market was large,
>power-hungry RIOS chipset (i.e. POWER, announced in RS/6000).
What about the PC/RT?
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