Sun E450 server officially vintage

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:04:34 +0000
> From: Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com>
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> Subject: Re: Sun E450 server officially vintage
> 
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Eric J Korpela wrote:
>>> Even though it may be a collectible, it's not quite vintage.  Yet.
>>> Things branded "Sun 4," I think would count, as would various
>>> SPARCstations and Solbournes.   Has any 64-bit microprocessor been
>>> declared officially vintage yet?
>> 
>> I already mentioned the Alpha 21064, but I believe the MIPS R4000 was even 
>> earlier.
>
> R4000 is only 32-bit, though.

No, The R4000 is 64 bits and probably the first 64 bit Microprocessor...




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Peter Wallace