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From: Ben Stuyts
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 03:06
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 03:06
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MB> the NS32000. The NS32000 is quite a clean architecture, but it is MB> slow and it MB> will remain so. It is just too CISCy, especially in terms of MB> unnecessarily complicated interpretation of data structures at run- MB> time (I am thinking at the module and link tables). NS is not going MB> to develop this family further (the new architecture is the MB> "Swordfish", a rather conventional RISC chip), so you will be stuck I know this is off-topic but... I got the impression from an article in the EE-Times that the swordfish was object code compatible (at the usermode level) with the 32K series. Lots of unimplemented instructions would trap and could then be emulated by the OS. On the other hand, I just might have misread the article. Best regards, Ben -- uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!2!281!202.6!Ben.Stuyts Internet: Ben.Stuyts@p6.f202.n281.z2.fidonet.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ukma!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!puddle!p6.f202.n281.z2.fidonet.org!Ben.Stuyts From: Ben.Stuyts@p6.f202.n281.z2.fidonet.org (Ben Stuyts) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: NS32000 (was: BIX - BYTE - JPI - Chaos) Message-ID: <1865.28071C8D@puddle.fidonet.org> Date: 11 Apr 91 03:06:20 GMT Sender: ufgate@puddle.fidonet.org (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 2:281/202.6 - ST Quick BBS Haarle, Haarlem Holland Lines: 28