Re: DECstations

[Jason Wagner <jason@primenet.com>]

> > 
> > Oh no, DEC never user any flavour of R4x00 at all; all their MIPS unix
> > sytems were R3000.  The Vr4300 was only introduced two years ago.
> 
> There are rare pieces of DECs with R4000.  I'm not shure if they're
> "normal" R2000/R3000 DECs equiped with accelerator boards.

According to the information I found on DEC's site ( I can dig for the URL
if anyone wants it ) the DECstation 5000/xxx were upgradable to R4k-based
CPUs.  Ralf's right -- it was a drop-in accelerator board.

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