EMC buys Data General

At 08:42 PM 8/9/99 +0200, Hans wrote: The distinction (arbitrary I know) is companies that designed their own architecture and built systems around it, not companies that adopted someone elses architecture. People like ARM, Motorola, and Intel are chip companies, not computer companies (although each has provided a computer based around their architecture at one time.) SPARC, while it may be considered a microprocessor with the advent of the "Tsunami" chip, prior to that it was a multiple chip architecture and from the F8 discussions we all know that a microprocessor is by definition a single chip :-) Anyone else catch the benchmarks of the latest Athlon chip from AMD? Dhrystone clocks it at 1974 MIPS (aka 1.974 GIPS!) Truely it boggles the mind. I had to explain to our sysadmin how the uVAX 3900 sitting in my office was about the speed of a 386/25 and he nearly choked. --Chuck