[rescue] Have I erred? (SGI division)

[Dave McGuire]

On July 14, Eric Dittman wrote:
> Then there's the VAX 7xxx and DEC 7xxx.  The VAX 7xxx is
> obviously a VAX, but the DEC 7xxx is an Alpha.  People
> will refer to both as a DEC 7xxx if they don't know what
> they really have.

  Yup.  And to make matters even worse, there's the "moron factor".  "It
has a big heatsink, therefore it must be a CPU."  Thus, "8-CPU Alpha
boards" floating around that are actually uni- or dual-processor
boards.

      -Dave

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