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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX
Message-ID: <2925@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 90 14:37:41 GMT
References: <11613@alice.att.com> <4868@trantor.harris-atd.com> <4876@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <4876@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:

| Ed Borasky's Top Ten Computer Architectures:

  Since I don't know the selection criteria, I dare not disagree with
this, but I believe that if you are looking at "production system which
broke new groupd," then you would have to include the Intel 432.

  Intel tried to do 32 bit data and object oriented hardware about two
decades before it was popular. Actually if they had the resources, I
believe that today's processes would make this part fast enough to be
useful, and salable in a niche market for doing object oriented stuff. I
confess that I see no hope there will be unused resources in Intel's
future, so I'm not holding my breath.

  The concepts were way ahead of their time, though, in both advance of
the market, and advance of the processes which would make the chip
reasonably fast.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.