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From: esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Survey of architectures was (Re: Proposed architecture characterization)
Message-ID: <29220@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 21 Apr 88 16:54:26 GMT
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Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
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In article <7657@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>This form raises an interesting question.
>
>He's curious about what machines have been very influential in the design
>of computers

The following list would be my take on what designs other designers have
reacted to over the last twenty years or so.  I've probably slighted
the VLIW and parallel crowd, but I haven't [yet] seen a lot of
impact on other architecture that's come out of their research.  Machines,
yes.  Architectural principles, no.

* IBM 360/370 -- Illustrates 'power of architecture', conformance to
  a scalable design

* Elliot Electric [ICL] 2901/Burroughs 5000/5500 -- commerical stack
  machine, higher level language programming

* Burroughts 1700/1800 -- variable microprogram machine

* IBM 704/709/7090/7094/GE 300/400/600/Honeywell 6000/Series 60/66 -- the
  prototypical CISC [36-bit] word machine

* ??? (later Honeywell) DDP-316, 516 -- the father of all 16-bit minis

* VAX 11/35 --> VAX 8800 -- the 'ultimate' CISC

* Berkley RISC

* IBM STRETCH/IBM 360/91/CDC 7600/Cyber 200/205/ETA 10 -- complex hardware
  (scoreboarding, pipelining, etc) as the way to push technology

* Intel 432 --

* Intel 4004/8008/8080/Zilog Z-80/8086/80286/80386 -- silicon CISC
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