Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!jarthur!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's?? Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 16:28:36 GMT References: <1990Oct14.003906.26373@wolves.uucp> <1536@ftc.framentec.fr> <1990Oct19.120218.9450@canterbury.ac.nz> <656404917.9119@proa.sv.dg.com> <1095@dg.dg.com> <42589@mips.mips.COM> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Followup-To: comp.arch Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: mash@mips.COM's message of 31 Oct 90 23:10:23 GMT On 31 Oct 90 23:10:23 GMT, mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) said: mash> Sigh. There is a discussion theme going on, here, and in comp.arch, mash> about the unreliability of second/third/fourth-hand information. mash> The discussion takes the form of: mash> A: I hear that magazine X printed that Y said such and such, mash> or that company Q is doing or has done Z. mash> B: I was there, Y didn't say that, X got it wrong mash> OR: I work for Q, and we didn't do Z; here are the true facts Yup, but gossip is not just for old ladies :-(. On this subject, I'd like to have any news about two interesting developments, one of which is somehow related to foils on Motorla plans that you quote with a smile: mash> The foils also say (exact quote): mash> [ ... ] mash> 1991 - GAAS INTEGER UNIT (>50 MIPS)" As to GaAs wonders, I seem to recall (hallucinating again?) reading, to my great surprise, that the 68030 had been GaAs'ed, and the military architecture derived from the MIPS one had too. I seem to recall that both chip sets (part of the VHSIC programme? -- how it is going, if it is still going?) had really impressive frequencies etc... The news were as of last year (1989), at least for the prototypes. Has anybody got any news on thsi interesting subject? -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk