Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Survey of architectures was (Re: Proposed architecture characterization)
Message-ID: <1882@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 88 16:34:23 GMT
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In article ... esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) writes:
> The following list would be my take on what designs other designers have
> reacted to over the last twenty years or so.

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

> * VAX 11/35 --> VAX 8800 -- the 'ultimate' CISC
    ^^^--- I hope you mean *PDP* 11/35.

> * Intel 432 --
          ^^^--- You're kidding, right? The ultimate in vaporhardware
		 is a significant machine?

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

What about Motorola 68000?

And there's a couple of *distinct* breaks in your progression. There's no
real comparison between the 4004 and 8008.  I've got the 4004 manual here,
and it looks more like a calculator chip than a general purpose computer.
Wonder why :->?

And the 8086 is nearly as big a break from the 8080.
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