Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:56:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, Yann Ramin <atrus@matadore.montereyhigh.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Intel's flops (was: IA64) Message-ID: <19990708165644.G6035@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990708010021.041462e0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 01:04:35AM -0600 References: <19990708081844.17503@ns.int.ftf.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907071125170.20161-100000@matadore.montereyhigh.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990707120716.77528A-100000@shell-2.enteract. <4.2.0.56.19990707200123.00b36480@localhost> <19990708081844.17503@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990708153710.B6035@freebie.lemis.com> <4.2.0.56.19990708010021.041462e0@localhost>
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On Thursday, 8 July 1999 at 1:04:35 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:37 PM 7/8/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Are you implying that the 8080 was a high-end processor? > > At the time, it was. It was a darned sight better than the > 8008. But that was longer ago. That was 25 years ago. And the 8080 was a pretty weak processor, even for the day. It was just the one of the high-end microprocessors, not a high-end processor, which still implied hundreds of chips. > I was talking about the iAPX 432. Ah, that was some time later. > The architecture of the iAPX 432 was truly inspired. But the chips > were too expensive to make at the time, no one understood how good > the basic architecture was, and there was no bus fast enough to > allow the chips to shine. My recollection was that the 432 was just plain too slow. The instruction set was not conducive to performance. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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