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Article #21040Re: Criteria for comparing RISC processors
From: Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Ma...
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 11:01
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 11:01
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In article <156@dg.dg.com> mpogue@dg.UUCP (Mike Pogue) writes: >> > Over time, MIPS, SPARC, and the 88K will all have pretty much the same >clock rates, and will use the same feature sizes. maybe, maybe not. If Prisma meets their schedules you will be proved wrong around Jan 1990. > company that can't decide whether it wants to sell >chips or not (SPARC).... Sun doesn't even bulid chips. The announced, and sucessfully executed (last 2 years), plan is to license (anybody who wants to get in the act) the technolgy and let them sell chips. One can debate the merits of the plan; but to characterize it as confused seems a bit much. Cheers. Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. Only my work belongs to Sun* It's Not My Fault | Marketing Technical Specialist ! kbierman@sun.com I Voted for Bill & | Languages and Performance Tools. Opus (* strange as it may seem, I do more engineering now *)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!chiba!khb From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Criteria for comparing RISC processors Message-ID: <102927@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 4 May 89 11:01:11 GMT References: <2368@ogccse.ogc.edu> <1464@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <141@dg.dg.com> <18120@winchester.mips.COM> <144@dg.dg.com> <18316@winchester.mips.COM> <147@dg.dg.com> <18653@winchester.mips.COM> <102441@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <156@dg.dg.com> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 24