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From: aglew
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 14:34
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 14:34
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>In *1982*, HP presented (at ISSCC) a 32bit CPU with >450K transistors. It was fabbed in a 1.3um NMOS process. Yield was >microscopic at the time of the paper, but soon came up to quite >good levels. It was the CPU for the HP 9000 series 500, which >I think we still sell. I remember HP engineers coming round and giving our EE Department blurbs on the chip, saying things like "a complicated instruction set facilitates HLL programming and promotes performance". RISC was relatively new, but I almost choked. I remember thinking "I wish I had that many devices for a *good* architecture".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdurb!aglew From: aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: So, can you really fab 10**6 transi Message-ID: <28200289@mcdurb> Date: 17 Mar 89 14:34:00 GMT References: <7392@polya.Stanford.EDU> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:polya.Stanford.EDU:7392:mcdurb:28200289:000:595 Nf-From: mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM!aglew Mar 17 08:34:00 1989