Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!bwong
From: bwong@sundc.UUCP (Brian Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC processor in new Apollo system
Message-ID: <2640@sundc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 01:31:08 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Vienna, VA
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According to the rags I have seen, Apollo is using a new (and apparently
proprietary) design of RISC called Prism.  Prism stands for something like
Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Multiprocessing.  I don' know anything
else about the architecture, although if anyone can supply info, please do.
The announcement says that it can do 15 to <lots -- 100?> mips, by adding
in more processors.  Sounds like they must have had to conquer some
interesting problems to build one of these...