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From: mcg@omepd (Steven McGeady)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Intel 432's evolves into a RISC???
Message-ID: <2707@omepd>
Date: 14 Jan 88 22:03:18 GMT
References: <243@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Reply-To: mcg@omepd.UUCP (Steven McGeady)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
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In article <243@spar.SPAR> malcolm@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Malcolm Slaney) writes:
>
>	Intel RISC Due in Spring; Details at ISSCC
>	From EE Times (January 11, 1988, p 2).
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>Let me get this right.....the absolute biggest of the CISC's (the 432) is 
>evolving into a RISC?  Maybe EE Times left the :-) off the article.
>

Considering that the last major piece of silicon that Intel's Oregon
Microcomputer Engineering group released was the 432, it seems likely
that anything the group released, be it a processor or a popcorn
maker, would be compared to the 432.  This is especially true in the case
of journalism (and I use the term loosely) in the absence of facts,
such as the mentioned EE Times article.

Moreover, the comparisons, if made by object-oriented, fault-tolerant,
CISC computer zealots, would refer to the advanced, pioneering,
glimpse-of-the-future 432 processor, while comparisons made by the RISC,
anti-Intel, and architectural purity zealots would refer to the abysmally
slow and commercially unsuccessful 432.

I suggest that you wait for the ISSCC paper and make up your mind at
that time.

S. McGeady
Popcorn Maker Division
Intel Corp.