jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) (10/21/89)
khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) writes: ->In article <33870@ames.arc.nasa.gov> lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes: ->>In fact, did anyone notice a recent newspaper article ->>(In Tuesday's Merc. News - from Knight Ridder:) ->> ->>"Control Data to use Mips design" ->> ->>"Control Data Corp. has cast its lot with Mips Computer Systems, inc. to design ->>the brains of its future computers, choosing a new computer architecture ->>developed by the Sunnyvale Company." In a slightly different vein, there was a reprint in the Mercury from the New York Times about the very subject that is being discussed in this thread. This was in the Thursday Mercury, Oct 19th, Business section. The upshoot of the article is that the next versions of the chips from the like of Intel and Mips [and Sun] will eclipse the likes of Cray. They discuss the development of RISC strategy and superscalar as well as vector technology. Good reading. I believe the side effect of this article in the New York Times will be the exposition of this computer evolution to the people that have the money and the budgets to buy equipment. The techies can argue and argue with management, but when the bosses read it in the Times it becomes relevant. Hopefully it will opens their minds to to the potential described. -Jim -- Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com / Sun Microsystems ...these are my opinions, and even my id disagrees..
mac@ardent.com (10/27/89)
> > In a slightly different vein, there was a reprint in the > Mercury from the New York Times about the very subject that is > being discussed in this thread. This was in the Thursday Mercury, > Oct 19th, Business section. > > The upshoot of the article is that the next versions of the > chips from the like of Intel and Mips [and Sun] will eclipse the > likes of Cray. They discuss the development of RISC strategy and ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > superscalar as well as vector technology. Good reading. Let's get real, now. All I've heard has been that new micros are catching up to the Cray 1. The Cray 1 was developed in the early seventies, and released around '78 (just about the same time as the 11/780). the fact that micros are catching up with a ten year old machine seems to be nothing special; it is what one would expect; after all, it's been 10 years... The real thing to note here is that micros are squeezing out the purported market that mini supers were suposed to fill... > Jim Becker / jcb%frisbee@sun.com / Sun Microsystems > ...these are my opinions, and even my id disagrees.. > In article <126633@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes: Michael McNamara (St)Ardent Computer