Pete's irrational fear of SGI was:[geeks] Religion vs. Politics

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:49:01AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:29:54AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > RP88 card?  What's that?
> > 
> > Its between the RP87 and RP89, silly!
> 
> Really, so since the RP88 is a Moto 88k accelerator board, then what
> CPUs are used on the RP87 and RP89?

Tek was really into the accelerator line for a while - they actually
started with the RP88, with the 88 meaning 88K, but then went and released
two other boards, one of a lower processing power (the 87), and one really
killer one, the 89.

IIRC, the 87 used a MIPS R2K processor.  I Could be wrong, but it seems to
be about right.  The high-end model 89 board set used a 4-pack of Sun
SPARC processors running at 40MHz.  The unique feature was the addition of
8M of static column RAM, making it a true 0ws system.  The only problem
was heat, and Tek ended up having to have customer's systems modified with
a new lid to allow heat to vent.

-Pete