gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (10/30/87)
In article <1800@ho95e.ATT.COM> wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46133-Bill.Stewart,2G218,x0705,) writes: >So don't sell the 32XXX series short. It's CISC rather than RISC, but it's >got a complete chip family, a floating point chip faster than Weitek, >and good Operating System support I'm not sure why this discussion is being conducted in comp.sources.d, but since it is, I'd first like to concur with Bill Stewart -- the WE32xxx is actually pretty nice; for example, it had a barrel shifter before the MC68xxx family, despite Motorola hype to the contrary. Next, I'd like to inquire about the "CRISP" processor described in a recent Bell Labs CSTR. Where is this used, anyway? Is it being dropped in favor of the SPARC architecture?