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From: jml@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.celerity
Subject: Re: Is anyone out there?
Message-ID: <532@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 20:21:40 GMT
References: <1602@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: jml@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman)
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Organization: NCR Corporation - Distributed Systems Lab
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In article <1602@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
>A short history:  my company uses NCR's 32 bit VLSI CPU chip in one of
>its products.  Emulating the machine code used in our other processors
>we were get about 280 KIPS (yup,  that's right).  I had clipped an article
>from UNIX World about another company that used the chips (it was founded
>by some of the chip's designers) but were getting 8 MIPS.  Obviously,
>I'd like to find out how.  I finally ran across the article while cleaning
>out my files to make room for new files.  And it was celerity.

Celerity used the NCR32 as a direct execution engine, with an external
register windowing mechanism. They sold both uni-processors and a
diatic version. I imagine that it was the diatic version which you
saw rated at 8MIPS. The NCR32 in direct execution mode is a RISC.

>So,  does anyone out there have any useful info.  Did celerity bite it?
>Anyone know where the celerity people went.  HELP!!

Celerity was purchased by Floating Point Systems about a year and a half
ago. They are still in the same location, but are no longer producing
systems based around the NCR32. Their new system is a vector processor
built using BIT's ECL VLSI register unit etc. Many off the engineers
are still there, but management has been moved around and Vallender, the
president, is off with a new company, also called Celerity, that does
some computer consulting work. Rumor has it that they also make bird
cages, but I've been unable to confirm this.

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