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From: sah@mips.COM (Steve Hanson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Longer quote, RPM-40 performance
Message-ID: <1775@gumby.mips.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 88 23:22:38 GMT
References: <9732@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <9759@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: sah@gumby.UUCP (Steve Hanson)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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Keywords: DAIS, 14 MIPS, General Electric

>]An article by mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) says:
>In article <9759@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> sungoddess!oconnor@steinmetz.UUCP writes:

>] Just out of curiosity, is the RPM intended for ADA, or C, ... or assembler?

>Ada, which is NOT an acronym, and therefor should not be in all-caps.
>But this is a picky point, which you probably knew, eh ? Ada is a
>registered trademark of the U.S. Goverment - Ada Joint Program Office. 
>Yes, there WHERE design decisions that resulted from this choice.
>
>] -john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
>
>--
>    Dennis O'Connor			      UUNET!steinmetz!sunset!oconnor
>		   ARPA: OCONNORDM@ge-crd.arpa
>   (-: The Few, The Proud, The Architects of the RPM40 40MIPS CMOS Micro :-)



	Ada is no longer a registered trademark of the U.S. Government. The
Ada Joint Program Office announced the the Federal registration of Ada as a 
trademark will not be maintained after November 30, 1987.

	Can you elaborate on what RPM-40 architectural design decisions were
made to support Ada?