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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Survey of architectures was (Re: Proposed architecture characterization)
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Date: 25 Apr 88 16:48:15 GMT
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Keep the content high, guys.........
I hope each of you read all postings BEFORE posting follow ups (jerking).
;-)
The asynchronous nature of the net is bad enough.

>What about Motorola 68000?

I should point out that I ask for COMPUTERS, not just processors.
Brian Reid (when he was reading arch) did an excellent summary (years ago)
about what makes a computer more than a processor (balance).  There was also
a recent posting about "third Amdahl's law (1MIPS/1MB/1MB/Sec)."

I'm not counting JUST processors (which I will do for 1 more day only).
I'll set them aside.  I call this a CPU fetish.

Another gross generalization from

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
				soon to be aurora.arc.nasa.gov
at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
  "Mailers?! HA!"
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  "Send mail, avoid follow-ups.  If enough, I'll summarize."