Things that make you sick!

That's the ill-fated 88000 chipset by Motorola. It was Moto's only entry into the then-new RISC processor market. The AViiON is one of a handfull of machines developed to use the 88000. The three chips collectively make up a CPU: the two 88200's are cache/mmu, and the 88100 is the actual CPU itself. The 88000 was way cool, on account of it was one of the earliest RISC CPU's that was designed specifically to operate in parallel. This processor family was doomed when Moto sold it's soul to IBM and Apple and produced the PowerPC (it did this, but only after Moto shot itself in the foot, yet again). Anyways, the AViiON ran DG-UX, (a unix subspecies), and were fairly cool in their day. They can be had *very* cheaply; I seriously doubt many will survive. . . While not yet 10 years old, I think it qualifies as 'classic' (well, they're cheap enough so I can afford to purchase them; that's good enough for me!!!) :^) Jeff On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:45:15 -0500 Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> writes: ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.