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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: New product?
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Date: 7 Feb 90 23:15:15 GMT
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In article <335@mtndew.UUCP> friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Steve Friedl) writes:
>dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes:
>>Just got an invitation to an IBM product announcement.  Anyone know what

>IBM did extensive studies of what kinds of instructions were
>needed by typical workstation, and they built a superscaler RISC
>to match it.  Very high integer and floating point performance,
>four or five instructions can execute at one time.

What an original idea, only Intel (486), Motorola (68040), and a whole
plethora of other companies have done the same.  Can it truly be that
the company that once said there that there would be no market for photo-
copiers as long as there was carbon paper, is actually getting in on the
band wagon.

Nah, I doubt it!  But then, what do I know?


Chewey, get us outta here!
                 
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley