Is the 3b2 dead?

[stephen.a.rago]

In article <13119 at ulysses.att.com>, cjc at ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) writes:
> Face it, floating point on the 3b's always was terrible.  Why do you
> need fast floating point on a phone switch?  By the time Summit
> figured out that the thing wasn't being used as a phone switch any
> more, it was too late to add decent floating point.  Same thing for
> virtural memory hardare.  The original machines had fairly good VM for
> swapping based systems, but it took a long time for them to get the
> MMU right for paging.

The 3B2 hardware was designed in Indian Hill, not Summit.
Summit just put UNIX System V on it.

Steve Rago
sar at attunix.att.com