Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!schwartz From: schwartz@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX on 3090 Message-ID: <1989Dec17.062913.28580@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 17 Dec 89 06:29:13 GMT References: <21080@gryphon.COM> <187@eliza.edvvie.at> <6388@turnkey.gryphon.COM> <289@dgsi.UUCP> <6403@turnkey.gryphon.COM> Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 20 In article <6403@turnkey.gryphon.COM> jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM writes: >workstation. For example, it is common these days to do the graphic VLSI >circuit design on a workstation but this is just the graphic frontend, when >it comes to the real processing it is necessary to have the mainframe class >system to accomplish it. Around here we do lots of VLSI design on old Sun4s, because it's faster than on our 3090/600E. As you remark, IBM has wonderful thruput and lots of memory, but for scalar arithmatic the "Attack of the Killer Micros" has already been won. >That's why Intel designed the 486 running AIX on >the 3090, it wasn't due to liking Big Blue, they just had to have a system with >this kind of power. Well enough of my rambling, you get the idea. Ask someone at Motorola about how the 88000 was done. -- Scott Schwartz "More mips; cheaper mips; never too many." -- John Mashey