[geeks] Has Sun Learned from SGI's Mistakes?

[Dave McGuire]

On February 7, dave at cca.org wrote:
> >  The first Cobalts...the Qube and the RaQ...were MIPS-based.  I
> >beta-tested those; they were great machines.  Then Cobalt got
> >suits...and they started making (rather boring) little PeeCees.
> 
> I *really* wish the 3B2 line hadn't been killed off just as they
> were switching to MIPS... Supposedly about 100 MIPS-based 3B2s
> were made before the axe fell.

  Did the later [unreleased] designs have paged virtual memory?  I seem
to remember something about 3B2 machines having to do full-process
swapping instead of paging...meaning if you had a 3B2 with 4MB of RAM
you couldn't run emacs.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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