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From: christy@argosy.UUCP (Peter Christy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RISC
Keywords: what integer parallelism?
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Date: 3 Mar 90 20:44:46 GMT
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It is pretty unfair to criticize IBM on information disclosure.

See for example, from the compcon 90 proceedings, the three papers
on the IBM Second-Generation RISC Machine, and then the already
referenced IBM compendeum on technology, available from IBM sales
people.

IBM may not be perfect in terms of information availability,  but for
a product introduced a month ago, it's an amazing wealth of detailed
and clear information.


Peter Christy
MassPar Inc.
2840 San Tomas Expressway
Santa Clara, CA  95051