Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ubvax!ardent!mac From: mac@ardent.com Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Re^2: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS Message-ID: Date: 26 Oct 89 21:27:08 GMT References: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <20336@princeton.Princeton.EDU> <36057@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <33870@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <126561@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <126633@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@ardent.UUCP Reply-To: mac@ardent.com (Michael McNamara) Organization: Ardent Computer Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 32 In-reply-to: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM's message of 20 Oct 89 21:54:03 GMT > > 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. Let's get real, now. All I've heard has been that new micros are catching up to the Cray 1. The Cray 1 was developed in the early seventies, and released around '78 (just about the same time as the 11/780). the fact that micros are catching up with a ten year old machine seems to be nothing special; it is what one would expect; after all, it's been 10 years... The real thing to note here is that micros are squeezing out the purported market that mini supers were suposed to fill... > Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com / Sun Microsystems > ...these are my opinions, and even my id disagrees.. > In article <126633@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes: Michael McNamara (St)Ardent Computer