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From: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re^2: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
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Date: 20 Oct 89 21:54:03 GMT
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khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) writes:

->In article <33870@ames.arc.nasa.gov> lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:

->>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."


	In a slightly different vein, there was a reprint in the
Mercury from the New York Times about the very subject that is being
discussed in this thread. This was in the Thursday Mercury, Oct 19th,
Business section.

	The upshoot of the article is that the next versions of the
chips from the like of Intel and Mips [and Sun] will eclipse the likes
of Cray. They discuss the development of RISC strategy and superscalar
as well as vector technology. Good reading.

	I believe the side effect of this article in the New York
Times will be the exposition of this computer evolution to the people
that have the money and the budgets to buy equipment. The techies can
argue and argue with management, but when the bosses read it in the
Times it becomes relevant. Hopefully it will opens their minds to to
the potential described.

-Jim

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   Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com  / Sun Microsystems    
   ...these are my opinions, and even my id disagrees..