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Article #2585Re: self-modifying code
From: Eugene Brooks
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1989 22:48
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1989 22:48
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>>There is no defense against the ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS! >We've been through this before. When micros want to supplant the high-end >supers, they'll have to come up with answers to the age-old (well, ok, >maybe 15 years old) problem of how to build a memory that will keep a fast >CPU fed. Such a memory costs a Whole Lot Of Money. When you've sunk a lot >Bob Colwell ..!uunet!mfci!colwell >Multiflow Computer or colwell@multiflow.com Interleaving directly on a memory chip is absolutely trivial. The memory chip makers will do it as soon as there is a mass-market for it. Of course the supercomputer vendors will be able to make use of these hot memory chips, but their slow CPUs just won't be fast enough to keep up with microprocessors. brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!vette!brooks From: brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: self-modifying code Message-ID: <35835@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 14 Oct 89 22:48:54 GMT References: <5546@dime.cs.umass.edu> <46500081@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 17