From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 4 11:13:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA16675 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:13:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [206.169.44.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA16670 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:13:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (ulf@gatekeeper.Lamb.net [207.90.181.2]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with ESMTP id LAA02776; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ulf@localhost) by Gatekeeper.Lamb.net (8.8.3/8.7.6) id LAA10510; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:12:24 -0800 (PST) From: Ulf Zimmermann Message-Id: <199612041912.LAA10510@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Subject: Re: Nentendo-64 port To: rsnow@lgc.com (Rob Snow) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:12:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: dufault@hda.com, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Rob Snow at "Dec 4, 96 12:18:43 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As far I know Nintendo has already shipped more then 1 mio. It is based on a development from SGI. It has a Mips 4300-100 processor. It has a second chip, developed by SGI, which does the graphics. Take a look at http://www.Mips.com/ They tell some stuff about it there. (Orion) processor > On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Peter Dufault wrote: > > Forget the Alpha port - we need the N64 port. I read in this > > morning's paper that they hope to ship 750,000 units in the US > > this year and estimate they could sell 2.5 million if they > > could build them. > Aren't the Nintendos MIPS based? > > -Rob > > > > > -- > > Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation > > HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 > > dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267 > > > > Ulf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Lamb Art Internet Services | http://www.Lamb.net/ | http://www.Alameda.net