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From: mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Opinions on Hyperstone ?
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Date: 27 Jan 91 17:52:08 GMT
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Hyperstone looks like a fairly interesting architecture, but it's not clear
that it has enough advantages to make it stand out among the dozen or more
contenders already in the market.  Zilog licensed it because they say it had
a smaller CPU core than anything else with comparable performance.  Zilog
will sell the CPU chip, but doesn't plan to actively promote it by itself.
They will use the CPU core as part of intelligent peripheral chips.  As far
as I know, only Hyperstone Electronics in W. Germany will actively promote
it.

I wrote a moderately detailed article describing the architecture that was
published in the September 19, 1990 issue of Microprocessor Report.

Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report   mslater@cup.portal.com