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From: mcg@omepd (Steven McGeady)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Press Release: Intel announces 80960 architecture
Message-ID: <3380@omepd>
Date: 15 Apr 88 18:15:46 GMT
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Reply-To: mcg@iwarpo3.UUCP (Steve McGeady)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
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Keywords: 80960, RISC, embedded control


In article <8266@apple.Apple.Com> bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) writes:
>In article <3368@omepd> mcg@iwarpo3.UUCP (Steve McGeady) writes:
>>
>>architecture group headed by Glen Myers (author of 'Advances in Computer
>
>Steve, is this the same Glen Myers who said:  "Ones eyebrows should rise
>whenever a future architecture is developed with a register-oriented
>instruction set?"  [Comp. Arch. News, Aug 1977, pp. 7-10]  Perhaps he
>was quoted out of context;


Well, I was sort of hoping that someone would rise to the bait on this
one - I'm glad it was you, Brian.

I wish I had a videotape of Glen's 5-year "roast" here at Intel two years
ago - one of our group members culled through a number of his old books and
found a pile of gems like this one.  Some of the people up here that were
involved in the 432, as well as Glen (who had no direct involvement in it)
were "born-again" in the fire-baptism of the 432, and decided that the time
had come to implement a *fast* microprocessor.  The mythology has it that
the CISC-ish object-oriented folks who wouldn't accept the new order were
banished into software groups and obscure research projects :-).  This is, of
course, nothing but mythology ...  [I was not at Intel when the 432 was
being built.]  It is even more amusing that the current program manager for
the project, one Bill Pohlman, was the program director of the original
8086 development.  He starts customer presentations by saying that he's
atoning for his sins by pushing the 80960.

For the record, Glen Myers is no longer at Intel - he now is a principal
at Radix Microsystems in Beaverton, OR.  Among other endeavours, he is
preparing a book on the 80960 architecture and its development.

S. "Flat is where it's at" McGeady
Intel Corp.