craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley) (04/21/88)
Long ago, July 1987 to be exact, I saw this rumour in the news: >Definicon has developed an IBM PC board using Sun's new "SPARC" 12 MIP RISC >CPU, which would be *very* interesting to see in an Amiga 2000. Cost is $2995, >or $4500 including Weitek 1.6 Mflop (single precision Linpack) floating point >chips. The cost includes a C compiler derived from Sun's compiler. The board >includes 1 Mbyte of 55ns RAM. It runs "on any IBM-PC under MS-DOS 2.0 or >higher". Board is available 60 days ARO. > >"Definicon's proprietary software will run on the chip, providing a psuedo- >Unix software layer. Unix-compatible applications programs can run above this >layer in the RISC coprocessor. All I/O and system-level calls are passed to >the host processor's Intel CPU." I have no information as to exactly what >"psuedo-Unix" may mean. > >Definicon currently offers a 68020 board for the IBM PC, for somewhere around >$1500 (I forget the exact price). Does this beast exist ? Seems to me that if it did, there should be some in the wild out there... Please reply by email to this address or craig@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu Craig Hubley, Unicus Corporation, Toronto, Ont. craig@Unicus.COM (Internet) {uunet!mnetor, utzoo!utcsri}!unicus!craig (dumb uucp) mnetor!unicus!craig@uunet.uu.net (dumb arpa)