Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!mks.com!chrisp
From: chrisp@mks.com (Chris Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Info on Barrel Processors wanted
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.170243.1745@mks.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 17:02:43 GMT
References: <1990Feb23.193659.565@Stardent.COM> <38965@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: chrisp@mks.com (Chris Phillips)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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In article <38965@apple.Apple.COM> baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes:
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>>In article <1990Feb23.193659.565@Stardent.COM> sporer@stardent.UUCP () writes:
>>I am looking for references to literature on Barrel Processors. I have seen
>>the original articles on the CDC6600 Peripheral Processors. 
>Are you referring to CDC6600 barrel processors only?
>Similar concepts were used in the Denelcor HEP, and the upcoming TERA Horizon.

And also in the console and iop of the Amdahl 580, 58xx and (I think) 59xx. Barrel
processors were also used in several Hitachi/NAS machines. And most of the more recent
Cyber 170 and Cyber 180 machines from CDC except the Cyber 930.

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