bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case) (05/24/89)
>I'm afraid I'm going to have to use the same excuse as John for writing >this article. After reading the first article above, I was also stirred >up. Well, the jury has given its verdict: I was wrong in complaining about John Mashey's long, marketing-oriented posting. Since this court's decision applies to all citizens, I now have the same freedom to post stupid stuff (i.e., the same stuff I have always been posting!). >Our design team has personnel with the following credentials: >- Designers of the only commercially available 40Mhz RISC processor > (Cypress Semiconductor's CY7C601). Seems reasonable. >- Designers of the 68000 processor family (including the 68030 and 68040). >- Designers of the 88000 processor family (besides the founders). Could be, I dunno. >- Designers of the 29000 processor. Hold on! First off, "designerS", plural, seems wrong to me. Now, I was only a part of the 29000 architcture team for the first 3 years and two months of the project, so maybe I'm not an authority, but the person to whom you refer is not, to my knowledge, a designer in any way of the Am29000. He might be a really great guy, smartern all get out, I don't know, because he didn't work there while I did. He did some work on a follow-on to the 29K, but not on the 29K. Please don't be so liberal in your interpretation of the facts. I am not flaming you or the person who was at AMD (and Moto before there). I am just calling you on what I believe to be a factual error. There seems to be a trend in the microprocessor world: anyone who ever worked at the company within a certain number of years in an engineering capacity was a "designer" of the XXXXX microprocessor. I mean, I have seen or heard "designer of the 68000" attached to so many names that I can only guess that the 68000 was produced by Cecil B. DeMile. This seems unfair to those who really did have a major part of the action. >I apologize for taking up comp.arch space with this article, but I >am a member of Ross's design team, and I take it personally when >people imply that me and my company lack the expertise needed to >design high-performance microprocessors. Well, I apologize too. But we have set a tone for comp.arch, and now we have to live with it. And, as always, we pass the savings on to you! -- David Letterman
mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) (06/01/89)
In article <686@pitstop.West.Sun.COM> jwest@pitstop.West.Sun.COM (Jeremy West) writes: .... >straight myself. It is worthwile in that I can try out the things we have been >told and get corrections on MIPS from John Mashey etc. Actually, that reminds me: some DATA (from an unnamed source, but usually reliable): the SRAM question earlier: Chip clock SRAM SPARCstation1 20MH 25ns MIPS R3000 20Mhz 25ns SPARCsystem300 25Mhz 20ns <- new data MIPS R3000 25MHz 20ns -- -john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc> UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash OR mash@mips.com DDD: 408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253 USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086