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From: jesup@pawl23.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Longer quote, RPM-40 performance
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Date: 5 Mar 88 08:36:14 GMT
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In article <1732@winchester.mips.COM> mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
>	b) The use of SRAM as THE memory, not cache, and the limits
>	thereof. I'd assume that with a major bunch of external logic,
>	and some performance hits, you can probably work around these, but why?

	There was much thought about external caches (the system targets
may require much more than 128K memory).

>	d) Does it have software? (Note: 2-6X a Sun-3/260 is competitive,
>	or at least the 4-6 part is, if it's delivered
>		in a system
>		with a solid UNIX
>		with good compilers, at least C, FORTRAN, ADA
>		within the next 6 months)

	As has been said in GE management many times, "GE is not in the
computer business!"  (Outgrowth of the old GE/Honeywell fiasco)
Of course, they might change their minds, or find someone else to do a
deal with, who knows?  We can always hope, at least. :-)

>Microcontrollers (to me) are VLSI micros tuned in different directions
>from more general-purpose micros.  I'd happily hear a different term,
>like microprocessor-tuned-for-embedded-systems, or whatever.

	How about embedded-processor?  I've heard it used before.  Or
maybe embedded-CPU?

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