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From: benseb@grumpy.sdsc.edu (Booker Bense)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: VLIW machines?
Keywords: VLIW, references
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Date: 24 May 91 04:52:38 GMT
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In article <1349@b1.babss.UUCP> wadswort@babss.UUCP (John H. Wadsworth) writes:
>In article <1991May23.144817.23820@cs.yale.edu> kuszewsk@euler.biology.yale.edu writes:
>>Hi!
>>
>>Does anyone know if anyone is working on bringing a VLIW machine to market?   
>>Multiflow had a great technology.  Aslo, can anyone give me some solid  
>>background references on VLIW architecture (esp. the memory architecture)? 
>>Allthe arch. books I've seen make no mention of VLIW.
>>
>
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- I believe Alliant considers their FX8000 machines to be VLIW ( Very
Long Instruction Word for the lurkers out there ). Too bad Alliant
doesn't have VLTBC (Very Long Time Between Crashes) %-)!!!



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