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From: reggie@dinsdale.nm.paradyne.com (George W. Leach)
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Subject: Re: New product?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 14:54:02 GMT
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In article <2772@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>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.

   Actually, IBM was one of the pioneers of the RISC movement. with the
development of the 801 in the 70's.  For details check out the following
reference:



George Radin,
"The 801 Minicomputer",
Proceedings Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming languages
and Operating Systems, March 1-3, 1982, Palo Alto, California, pp. 39-47.
- or -
IBM Journal of Research and Development, 27 (3), May 1983, pp. 237-246.


also see

Robert Berhhard,
"More Hardware Means Less Software",
IEEE Spectrum, 18(12), December 1981, pp. 30-37.

George

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