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

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Thu Jun 13 11:23:33 CDT 2002


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

> Really, so since the RP88 is a Moto 88k accelerator board, then what
> CPUs are used on the RP87 and RP89?

Well, the former was a bank of Intel floating point units arranged in a
hypercube topology--a cheap attempt at a vectorized FPU.  I don't recall
the latter; I think it's vaporware.

--Jonathan



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