88K vs. MIPS vs. SPARC vs. 386

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From: grunwald
Date: Mon, 01 May 1989 18:17

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I would like to solicit comments concerning certain properties of available
workstations. I'm interested in architectures with a low cost for light-weight
thread context switching, e.g., for process oriented D.E.S.

Of the existing processors, it appears that the 88K is most suitable, since
it doesn't use (1) register windows or (2) a huge register file, both of
which cause a lot of problems when doing a *lot* of context switching.

However, other processors have good attributes, namely they're available
and cheap.

Does anyone, other than Data General, make an 88K box *available now* that
runs a reasonable UNIX (i.e. should be able to run Berkelyish code). Has
anyone had experience with the DG Maverick?
--
Dirk Grunwald
Univ. of Illinois
grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu

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