Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!

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From: John F Carr
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 00:47

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In article <1993Jan8.180253.22151@ptdcs2.intel.com>
	ssivakum@ptdcs2.intel.com (Sam Sivakumar) writes:

>	The first design of a chip rarely works, certainly almost never at
>this level of complexity.

IBM claimed good results with their initial RS/6000 implementation, due
to extensive simulation during design:

	The software developers were able to bring up a development version
	of the AIX operating system on the first-pass hardware successfully
	and continue development and testing of the software on the
	first-pass hardware without major hardware problem.  A few
	additional functional problems were found in the hardware after
	simulation.

	RISC System/6000 Technology (IBM book SA23-2619)
	"Structured System Design and Verification"
	Feistel et. al

There was one documented hardware bug in the released hardware.  I don't
know if has since been fixed.

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)

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