pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) (11/10/90)
On 1 Nov 90 19:16:15 GMT, mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) said in comp.sys.m88k: mash> re: R4000: there is, of course, no announced product called this... Ah. Sure. But things slip thru at times maybe... For once I have a precise quote, and not a recollection: there is a magazine (EDN) which sports in its Octover 25th issue an advert by a company called Integrated Device Technology, in which prospective converts to the MIPS architecture are promised a talk on its many wonders, amongst which is an R4000 thing. So, there is at least one R4000 product being discussed by at least one company that looks like being a MIPS publisher. Incidentally, reading some recent issues of similar magazines gives a definite impression that MIPS publishers are pressing forward in the realtime/embedded system market with *impressive* (on paper at least :->) products, which seems less expensive than equivalent 386/486 68030/68040 based ones -- I have seen also 29K and 88K adverts of course, but precious little SPARC ones. Way to go MIPS! Now, the only thing we are missing is some MIPS publisher getting into the PC/AT clone business and selling us an R2000 based ISA motherboard 16.67 Mhz 0k RAM at $800 an R3000 based ISA 25 Mhz motherboard (0k RAM) for $1000-$1300 an R3000 based EISA 33 Mhz motherboard (0k RAM) for $1500-$2000 and BSD/Mach/SystemV.4 for MIPS at say $600-$900, 2 users license, complete with X and usual amenities. Followups to comp.arch... -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk