[rescue] DEC 5000?

Dan Sikorski rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Dec 13 11:38:26 CST 2001


On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 11:24, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:09:40AM -0500, Mike Katchabaw wrote:
> > Sadly, no one we can find knows a whole lot about the front end, other
> > than it was a DEC 5000.  From what I can find, it's neither an Alpha
> > nor a VAX, but rather some kind of MIPS RISC system.  Is that correct?
> 
> The DEC 5000 that you talk about is a Decstation 5000.  It was a stop gap from
> Digital until they could complete the Alpha.  Anyway, it does use a MIPS r3000
> processor.  They are fairly common, but I just gave mine away about a month 
> ago.  Other people of this probably have them though.

I might be able to get one (cheaply) if you're interested.

	-Dan Sikorski



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