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From: Bill Broadley <broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu>
Subject: VESA mips board
To: riscy@pyramid.com (Mips 3000)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 03:33:41 -0500 (EDT)
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I just talked to a guy who has some information on a MIPS 4k 50 Mhz VESA board
with 128k (Max 1MB) cache on it and nothing else for $1750.

Kinda slick idea since the VESA bus basically IS the memory bus.

Minimizes cost/design maximizes functionality and reuse of hardware.

Just another FYI.

It seems that the riscy list is just a bit ahead of it's time the MIPS
entry into the PC world seems to be growing daily.

It seems that Acer, Compaq, and Tangent are now selling Mips 4k systems
with on board SCSI and ethernet.

I read the numerous posts from neil and it seemed the $70 mips/nec chip
was a 40/80 Mhz chip???  Anyone got some more info on these up and coming
sub $100 chips?

Anyone going to HOT CHIPS??? I'm going to try...

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From owner-riscy@pyramid.com  Mon Jul 26 12:09:58 1993
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From: Andreas Busse <andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 17:05:28 +0200
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To: riscy@pyramid.com
Subject: Re:  VESA mips board
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Hi Mipsers,

after days of being horribly busy, I tried to gather some
informations about the ARCset chips and the NEC R4200, also
called VrX.

1. The R4200, you won't believe it, is *AVAILABLE NOW*.
   I don't have prices yet, but I will get them soon, probably next week.
2. The ARCset chips are also *AVAILABLE*.
   I will receive documentation next week. Prices coming soon.
3. The "Application Note" for building a workstation
   around the R4x00 is *not* yet available in english
   (currently only in japanese - can someone read this ?),
   but will be end of this year.
4. I've found a very friendly NEC engineer who will give
   me access to all stuff he has in his office. We will
   have a meeting in Mid-August (he's in vacation until then)
   to find out what's usable for us.

Comments ?

Andy



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