From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:   
   >At Unisys, we had shipped systems using the 88000 and were designing   
   >what became the SPP (Scalable Parallel Processor) massivly parallel   
   >system based on the 88110.   Its cancellation caused a mad scramble   
   >to evaluate all the other extant RISC processors (Sparc, MIPS, PPC);   
   >for various reasons we settled on the Pentium Pro (P6) and the system   
   >shipped with 200Mhz P6 processors (up to 64 per system).   
      
   Data General also switched from 88K to the Pentium Pro.   
      
   - anton   
      
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