NeXT cubes or slabs.

IIRC, Sun went with Sparc because Motorola was dragging their heals with regards to RISC. It was my understanding at the time that Sun really didn't want to go their own way, they just couldn't make Mot get off their butt's. By the time Mot came around and came out with the 88000, it was too late. All the major workstation manufacturers had already picked their camps. I just wanted to bring this up because the above posting makes it sound like Sun chose the Sparc _over_ the 88000. Had the 88000 been around when Sun was ready with the 4 series, then all Sun's would be 88000 machines right now. Which would have had some interesting implications for the PPC since it would have been logical for Apple to also utilize the 88000. Also, wasn't SGI already commited to the MIPS camp already (i.e. before the 88000 was available)? George