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Article #20383Re: What kinds of problems...
From: Brian bcase Case
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1989 09:28
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1989 09:28
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>What kinds of simulations are these? Instruction set simulators. >Would there be any commercial interest in a really fast integer box >that had only fair floating pt performance? I don't want this to sound sarcastic, but I think they're called Personal Computers. And sometimes the floating-point perfomance bairly qualifies as fair! Let me cast my vote for the screamin'est integer box possible (I put in my two cents with the architecture of the 29000).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!bcase From: bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What kinds of problems... Message-ID: <16045@cup.portal.com> Date: 20 Mar 89 09:28:30 GMT References: <471@estevax.UUCP> <15347@winchester.mips.COM> <7137@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <24888@amdcad.AMD.COM> <11458@cgl.ucsf.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 13