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From: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
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Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
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Date: 17 Oct 89 19:28:51 GMT
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In article <36057@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:

>Cray like machines will be here for a long time indeed.  They will, however,
>be implemented on single or nearly single chip microprocessors.  I do not
>think that the "architecture" is bad, only the implementation has become
>nearly obselete.  It is definitely obselete for scalar code and vectorized
>code will follow within 5 years.

I agree with you here.  In fact, did anyone notice a recent newspaper article
(In Tuesday's Merc. News - from Knight Ridder:)

"Control Data to use Mips design"

"Control Data Corp. has cast its lot with Mips Computer Systems, inc. to design
the brains of its future computers, choosing a new computer architecture
developed by the Sunnyvale Company."

...


"The joint dev. agreement with Mips means Control Data will use [...] the RISC
architecture developed by that firm..."


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