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From: carl@otto.COM (Carl Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: D-machine helped spawn RISC
Message-ID: <518@otto.COM>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 04:22:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: otto.518
Posted: Sun Sep 13 04:22:47 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Sep-87 04:20:21 EDT
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Reply-To: carl@otto.UUCP (Carl Shapiro)
Organization: Las Vegas Sun
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Keywords: VLIW, WISC, horizontal microcode
Summary: The WISC is available now

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>... Josh Fisher, did his dissertation on global compaction of horizontal
>microcode.  Josh moved to Yale after he graduated, and then moved to a
>company to build a VLIW machine.  I don't know the current status of
>this machine ...

He (and others, some who also worked on the project at Yale) has built
the machine in question.  It's called the TRACE computer, and is being
produced and sold by Multiflow Computer, Inc. in Branford, Connecticut.