road trip score: AViiON, Microdata 1600

[Dave McGuire]

On 11/24/10 3:59 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
>> Same here... I love weird old Unix workstations and the Aviion is one
>> of the machines I'd dearly love to own.
> 
> Am I right in thinking that there were big Aviions, too? The only one I
> ever saw was a small desktop/deskside tower.

  There were several models; some of them were quite large.  The AV9500,
for example, could have up to sixteen 88100 processors and came in a rack.

> I must say I'd rather like one, too - something about 88k CPUs appeals,
> somehow.

  Same here.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL