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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sir Clive Sinclair's 200 MIP computer (Is This For Real?)
Keywords: Downloadable microcode, bipolar hyper-RISC processor, 200Mips
Message-ID: <2389@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 90 16:34:57 GMT
References: <155620021590@andrews.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <155620021590@andrews.edu> clt4@andrews.edu (Clarence Thomas IV) writes:
| The July 30, 1990 issue of INFOWORLD contains an interesting paragraph on
| a 200 MIP, battery powered, emulate-any-processor-you-want (downloadable
| microcode) computer.  It's in the column NOTES FROM THE FIELD (by Robert X.
| Cringely).  

  Well, this is a rumor column, and not the NY Times, but it's an
interesting idea. We had rumors of a machine with loadable control store
before, and they were exagerated. Still, Sir Clive is known for coming
up with things which people said couldn't be done, even if he does seem
to make very little money doing it.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me