Talk:R8000

TFP stands for

It was hardly ever spelled out, but TFP stood for "Twin Fucking Peaks". The earlier project name was Twin Peaks, after the TV show. TP wasn't a very good acronym, so TFP was used instead. I have never heard the expression "Tremendous Floating Point" before reading it just now, and I worked on the project from Feb 1991 to conclusion.

Also, the price looks completely wrong. I don't know if the R8000 was ever listed on a price sheet separately from the board.

Most sales were in the form of a twin-CPU board that plugged into a Power Challlenge system (forgive the three "l"s, that was SGI marketing). I believe the list price for the 75 MHz board was $70,000. SGI had intended to sell a version with a 16MB secondary cache for $90,000, but Sony did not come through with the necessary high-capacity synchronous SRAMs.

Iain McClatchie (talk) 00:43, 4 January 2014 (UTC)