jbuck@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Joe Buck) (05/10/91)
[ someone writes: ] >>Also, is there anything to prohibit a RISC based machine from having a high >>speed IO subsystem? Would adding this make the machine cost as much as a >>3090? In article <1991May9.144406.20558@vlsi.waterloo.edu> ward@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Paul Ward) writes: >I don't know, but it is an interesting question. Do you have $20,000,000 ? >We can try a little experiment. :-) Dave Patterson and his group are primarily researching I/O these days (Patterson coined the term "RISC" and the RISC-1 and RISC-2 projects at U.C. Berkeley eventually turned into the Sparc). I expect that more and more research work will turn to the problems of how to design cheap memory systems that deliver supercomputer performance, and how to increase I/O bandwidth, and there's no reason that this should cost $20M (though initially it won't be cheap). -- Joe Buck jbuck@janus.berkeley.edu {uunet,ucbvax}!janus.berkeley.edu!jbuck