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From: dave@fps.com (Dave Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.celerity
Subject: Re: Is anyone out there?
Message-ID: <1462@celit.fps.com>
Date: 10 Oct 89 00:56:58 GMT
References: <1602@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
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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.
 >
 >So,  does anyone out there have any useful info.  Did celerity bite it?
 >Anyone know where the celerity people went.  HELP!!
 >

We got the extra speed out of the chip by using its native instruction set.

Celerity didn't quite bite it, we were absorbed by FPS Computing about a
year ago and are now selling our latest and greatest as the FPS Model 500.
Upwards-compatible instruction set, 30ish MIPs.

Why not bundle a 500 along with your product?  It's only the size of a
Frigidaire and you should be able to get a solid MIP running in emulation
mode. :-)

David L. Smith
FPS Computing, San Diego
ucsd!celerity!dave or dave@fps.com
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