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From: pechter@scr1.UUCP (Bill Pechter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: E2000
Message-ID: <348@scr1.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 16:57:28 GMT
References: <125@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <28200326@mcdurb>
Reply-To: pechter@scr1.UUCP (Bill Pechter)
Organization: CONCURRENT COMPUTER,OCEANPORT NJ
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In article <28200326@mcdurb> aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
>
>Actually, isn't the Alliant non-vector instruction set a Motorola 68K take-off?
>Or am I giving still more evidence of my faulty memory?

No  ECC error there -- the Alliant uses the 68020 instructions in their
Computational Elements.  They also use 68012 and 68020's as their IP's 
(front end processors).	

This is based on my time at Alliant 2 years ago.  Things may have changed
since then but the FX/1 and FX/8 were 68020-ish.
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