[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <kdn33t$anu$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> This goes back a ways, but, I don't know whether there ever was a MIPS 
>> manufacturing facility.  What I remember is that there was a design, and 
>> licenses to produce it.
>>
>> But, I know nothing, so the above could be totally wrong ....
>>
>> :-)
> 
>    That's right.  MIPS were not manufactured.  They were dug up in secret
>    mines in Connecticut and shipped around until the trail was lost.
> 

Yeah, very funny, ha ha ...

Does anyone remember, did the people who designed the MIPS architecture 
actually do any manufacturing, or was all manufacturing done by licensees ??