sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) (06/10/88)
The British Columbia UNIX Users' Group
Dinner Meeting
Wednesday, 15 June 1988
The Westin Bayshore
1601 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC
RISC Technology--The Next Computer Revolution?
A Panel Discussion
Ed Bryant
Member of the Technical Staff
Sun Microsystems of Canada
Chander Khanna
Systems Engineer
Apollo Computer (Canada)
Ron McOuat
Engineer
Hewlett-Packard (Canada)
5:30 pm Registration and No Host Bar
6:45 pm Dinner
7:45 pm Panel Discussion and Questions
9:00 pm Networking and No-Host Bar
Reserve your place NOW!
For reservations, contact Carolanne Reynolds at (604) 925-2555.
The fine print.
The hotel requires reservations be made by Monday (June 13).
No-shows with reservations not cancelled by Monday will be billed.
Cost including dinner is $25 for members, $35 for non-members.
Memberships are $65 and are available at the door.
UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.
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RISC Technology--The Next Computer Revolution?
RISC computers (RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computer) have
received at lot of press recently and with good reason. It seems
that everyone (AMD, Apollo, AT&T, HP, IBM, Intel, Intergraph,
SUN, MIPS, Motorola, etc.) has announced a RISC chip or RISC
system.
It has been said that any computer company that hasn't a RISC
product within two years will be history within five! RISC chips
are currently available that run about 20 MIPs (MIP = Million
Instructions per Second). Compare this with current chips such
as the Motorola 68020 and the Intel 80386 variously rated at
between 2 and 5 MIPS.
As if that were not enough, predictions are for chips that will
process 50 MIPS by the end of 1988, 100 MIPS by the end of 1989,
and 1,000 MIPS (that's right, 1 GIP) possibly before the year
2000.
It is also interesting to note that the only operating system
announced for these RISC chips is UNIX!
Clearly RISC technology is important. Important to the computer
industry as a whole and particularly important to the UNIX
industry. In fact it can be argued that the performance increase
that RISC will bring to the industry will be as important as the
invention of the microcomputer itself! Hence the subtitle of our
panel discussion: "The Next Computer Revolution?"
If you are involved with the selection and acquisition of
computing power then you need to know more about RISC. And what
better way to find out than by attending our meeting on Wednesday
the 15th of June. Three knowledgeable representatives of
companies with differing RISC products are presenting some of the
background behind their company's decision to go with RISC and
some details of their approaches.
It promises to be a very informative and interesting meeting
providing attendees with a firm grasp of the nature and
importance of RISC.
See you there.
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Speakers
Ed Bryant
Member of the Technical Staff
Sun Microsystems of Canada
Ed has been a member of the technical staff of the Vancouver Sun
office for over a year. Prior to this he was a Systems Analyst
at Simon Fraser University. Ed has a Master's degree in
Computing Science from SFU.
Chander Khanna
Systems Engineer
Apollo Computer (Canada)
Chander is Apollo's Systems Engineer for British Columbia. Prior
to joining Apollo he was Systems Manager at Vertigo Systems
International. Chander has a Master's degree in Computing
Science and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
Ron McOuat
Engineer
Hewlett-Packard (Canada)
Ron has been with HP since 1977 and has filled various software
support positions over the years. He has been involved with HP's
UNIX products since their introduction in 1982. Ron has his
Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from
UBC.
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Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532