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From: oconnor@sungoddess.steinmetz (Dennis M. O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architectural analysis of RPM-40 for general usage [very long]
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Date: 11 Mar 88 14:11:25 GMT
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This posting is gonna be short on real info, but...
 I just had to thank John Mashey for his analysis. It looks
 very good. I'll go over it in detail and e-mail any
 comments I have back to him.

Nice work, John. WE should have done it. Unfortunately,
since GE "is not in the computer business", the
broad-based and thorough knowledge of UNIX and compilers
of which you are possesed is not directly available to
us : We only know what we read in the papers, essentially.
Sigh.

And yes, I have to be truthful : although I'd like
to think that the architecture has SOMETHING to do
with RPM40 performance, maybe just a little comes
from the VHSIC-compatable 1.25 micron AVLSI process.
Well, maybe more than a little :-)

--
 Dennis O'Connor   oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP  ARPA: OCONNORDM@ge-crd.arpa
         ( I wish I could be civil all the time, like Eugene Miya )
  (-: The Few, The Proud, The Architects of the RPM40 40MIPS CMOS Micro :-)