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From: ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Taco Bell Microsystems)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Proposed architecture characterization survey form
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Date: 19 Apr 88 15:26:30 GMT
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In article <2048@gumby.mips.COM> earl@mips.COM (Earl Killian) writes:
>Now that Motorola has announced the 88000, I believe all the
>commercial "RISC"s are out in the open (or am I missing something?).
>This list includes the MIPS R2000/R3000, the Fairchild Clipper, the
>IBM RT, the HP Precision, the AMD 29000, Sun SPARC, Intel 80960, and
>Motorola 88000 (speak up if I left anyone out!).
>
>UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!earl
>USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 Arques Ave, Sunnyvale CA, 94086

Here is a brief listing of RISCs from university, commercial & Govt projects
I am sure I have missed out many more. Can somebody email me or fill in
the rest?


Universities:

   Berkeley RISC I/II, SOAR, SPUR
   Stanford MIPS-X
   Purdue (With RCA?)

Commercial

   Acorn: ARM
   AMD: 29000
   ATT: CRISP
   Fairchild: Clipper
   HP: Spectrum
   IBM: RT(ROMP) & its next generation
   Mips: R[2/3]000
   Motorola: 88000 (an example of how no. got changed before release:-))
   Pyramid: 90X
   Ridge: Ridge-32
   Sun: Sparc
   Xerox: ?? (ECL)
   Intel: 80960

Commercial(Announced and in-the-works)

   Apple: <code-named aquarius - so is it next february:-)>
   Apollo: <no. to-be-stamped :-)>
   DEC: ???

DoD & Darpa Contracted

   GE: RPM-40
   RCA: ??
   TI: ??
   MD: ??
   Rockwell: ??

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