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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Yet Another Killer Micro?
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Date: 1 Mar 90 04:23:18 GMT
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Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
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Well boys?  The top IBM 6000 series Killer Micro turns in
about one third of the performance of a YMP for the Geometric
Mean on the Livermore Fortran Kernels.  I won't mention what
it does on my "really crufty scalar code."  It would appear that
more than the likes of Mips and Sun that are going to see some
carnage.

After seeing IBM's THREE PAGE add in the Wall Street Journal
I guess that Motorola decided that it could not sit quiet any
longer.  Motorola featured a full page add preparing us for an
announcement (presumably in the same paper) on the 5'th.

Any comments or speculations? Will it be an IBM killer?
Will this monthly rabbit hop in performance between the vendors
ever end?  Will Killer Micros reach a saturation point in performance
any time soon?

    NO ONE WILL SURVIVE THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS!
brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp