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From: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Unsafe at any speed
Message-ID: <7@zds-ux.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 19:36:08 GMT
References: <1477@aber-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
Organization: Zenith Data Systems
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In article <1477@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
> . . .  My champion as to this is the
>CRISP thing: if I remember correctly the chip complexity of the CRISP and
>the MIPSco chips is exactly the same, at 170k, speed is not that different,
>factoring out technology, and the architectures are as different as they can
>be.

CRISP exists?  I thought AT&T dumped that project.  Is someone else making
them?

But your right, it's a great architecture.  Simple where it counts but not
impossible for anyone but a compiler to write code for.  I got to make
UNIX run on early silicon of this processor, so I have some experience
with it.

Gerry Gleason