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From: izahi@elaine0.stanford.edu (Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez)
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Subject: Re: Parallel computers from Sun?
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Date: 2 May 91 16:48:06 GMT
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In article <1991May1.175839.25044@pa.dec.com> mok@fortsc.enet.dec.com (Charles P. Mok) writes:
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>I have heard some rumors (?) that Sun will be coming out with parallel
>computers soon.  

   I don't know about MIMDs but Sun has a project called Viking which happens
to be a superscalar processor. I competes with LSI Logic's Lightning but
LSI Logic's has out-of-order execution which would give it better performance
that Sun's, however LSI Logic is building a chip-set while Sun's is monolithic
manufactured by Texas Instruments.
   Superscalar, Superpipelined and "back-to-cisc" HP Precision Arch, are
providing the next hops in the MIPS war. All of these techniques exploit
parallelism inherent to current day applications.
   						RAUL IZAHI LOPEZ
						izahi@nova.stanford.edu





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