Re: Question for David Miller or anyone else about R6000 code

["William J. Earl" <wje@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>]

William Fisher writes:
...
 >      Since the R6000 was an ECL machine produced in late 1992, just
 >      before the MIPS/SGI merger. There were only a few machines sold
 >      and the machine was designed to be a Fortran FP specialist.
 > 
 >      Hence the R6000 is long since dead. We still have the MIPS risc/os 5.01
 >      operating system source code, so if anybody has lots of free cycles
 >      to waste, I'm sure we can send them locore.

      Actually, CDC later sold quite a few multiple-processor machines, after
MIPS was merged into SGI.  They are not very practical, however, as they
use a lot of power and are only a little faster than a 100 MHZ R4000SC.