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Article #11668Re: RISC vs. CISC -- SPECmarks
From: Jeff Carroll
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 17:37
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 17:37
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In article <3997@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com (Jeff Carroll) writes: >In article <_R9B1S2@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: >>> Well, you _could_ rediscover the Connection Machine. >> >>Is it reasonable to think about scaling the CM down to a desktop workstation? (Sorry about the double post - Emacs is arguing with the Novell gateway again, and I barely managed to escape the last edit session without a reboot.) Actually TMC thinks that they *have* scaled down the CM - down to *one* of those big black cubes. From the literature I've seen, MasPars are not as large, and there's at least one SIMD (WaveTracer) that's about the size of a Firefox workstation. In short, I think there'll be desktop SIMDs some day soon. Whether they'll be built by TMC, well... where's barmar? -- Jeff Carroll carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." - Socrates
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!carroll From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: RISC vs. CISC -- SPECmarks Message-ID: <3998@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: 17 May 91 17:37:05 GMT References: <1991Apr27.012655.6508@rice.edu> <_R9B1S2@xds13.ferranti.com> <3997@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> Sender: news@ssc-vax.UUCP Reply-To: carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com (Jeff Carroll) Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Lines: 26