Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!garcon!garcon.cso.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: FPU chip set Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 89 02:05:44 GMT References: <871@stag.UUCP> Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 10 In-reply-to: trb@stag.UUCP's message of 14 Jun 89 14:38:26 GMT Could this perhaps refer to the recent MECL implementation of the SPARC architecture, as recently reported in (I think) Electronic Design? Now that there's an 80Mhz (I think it was) SPARC out, how is the Prisma chip going to find a market niche? Will ted marry alice? And about about those aliens? God I love RISC. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)