Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Longer quote, RPM-40 performance
Message-ID: <9721@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 14:58:06 GMT
References: <9679@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <9689@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1695@winchester.mips.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: DAIS, 14 MIPS, General Electric

In article <1695@winchester.mips.COM> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
| In article <9689@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
| > [..]
| >Mind you, there are some of us who would like this chip in a
| >workstation, but it would have to be done in quantity to keep the cost
| >of the chipset down.
| 
| I assume this must be humorous: it is obvious that this architecture was
| designed to be a microcontroller, to run limited-size, embedded,
| and definitely, non-UNIX applications.  It seems OK for that purpose,
| but it obviously wasn't built for running UNIX or large applications
| (and there's nothing wrong with that).

Nope. It runs a general purpose instruction set, it has lots of power,
and RISC machines are not too bad as targets for UNIX ports. Looks like
the speed would be 2-6 times the Sun (25MHz) machines, depending on
implementation.

I don't think it's a microcontroller in the usual sense, with a lack of
general instructions and registers, and limited word size. There was NO
smiley face on my posting, and not on this one either.
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