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Article #2648Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
From: Hugh LaMaster
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 19:28
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 19:28
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In article <36057@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes: >Cray like machines will be here for a long time indeed. They will, however, >be implemented on single or nearly single chip microprocessors. I do not >think that the "architecture" is bad, only the implementation has become >nearly obselete. It is definitely obselete for scalar code and vectorized >code will follow within 5 years. I agree with you here. In fact, did anyone notice a recent newspaper article (In Tuesday's Merc. News - from Knight Ridder:) "Control Data to use Mips design" "Control Data Corp. has cast its lot with Mips Computer Systems, inc. to design the brains of its future computers, choosing a new computer architecture developed by the Sunnyvale Company." ... "The joint dev. agreement with Mips means Control Data will use [...] the RISC architecture developed by that firm..." Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9, UUCP ames!lamaster NASA Ames Research Center ARPA lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035 Phone: (415)694-6117
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ames.arc.nasa.gov!lamaster From: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS Message-ID: <33870@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 17 Oct 89 19:28:51 GMT References: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <20336@princeton.Princeton.EDU> <36057@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Sender: usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA - Ames Research Center Lines: 28