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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
Message-ID: <4173@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 1 Nov 90 07:24:38 GMT
References: <1990Oct14.003906.26373@wolves.uucp> <1536@ftc.framentec.fr> <42589@mips.mips.COM>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <42589@mips.mips.COM>, mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
> 1989	-	A/I ORIENTED DERIVATIVE PROCESSOR AND CMMU CHIP SET
> 		(>2 MLIP)
> 		* TAG PROCESSING IN PROCESSOR
> 		* GARBAGE COLLECTION IN CMMU

This design was actually written up as a thesis in Arizona, but
when I heard about it was still covered by all sorts of non-disclosure
stuff, and I was on the wrong side of the agreements.  So I _do_ know
that there was a design, and that the claimed LIP rate had some sort
of credibility assuming the projected speed of the base processor,
but I _don't_ know whether it ever got as far as masks, let alone silicon.
The 88k makes a nice AI machine as it stands.

-- 
The problem about real life is that moving one's knight to QB3
may always be replied to with a lob across the net.  --Alasdair Macintyre.