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From: jesup@pawl23.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Motorola 88000 and others
Keywords: mc88000 RISC parallel-units
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Date: 3 Apr 88 08:46:11 GMT
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In article <1168@csun.UUCP> sef@csun.UUCP (Sean Fagan) writes:
>The thing I find funny is that these people seem to think that these things
>are wonderful new ideas, yet I routinely work on a CDC 170 type machine,
>which can do a divide, a multiply, a floating point add or subtract, an
>integer add or subtract, and an address calculation, all at the same time.

	Remember that to do so in a mainframe, or even a mini, is relatively
easy, just throw more hardware at it.  Doing it in a single chip microprocessor
isn't quite as easy (ALU's are BIG).

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