colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell) (01/19/89)
There is an excellent article in the latest IEEE Computer on the Convex C2 by Tom Jones. He talks about the real world travails of computer designers in interesting detail. Oh, the things they never taught you in grad school. My hat's off to Tom. (Well, I don't actually wear a hat, but if I did...) The article about the Cydra-5 is, in my opinion, quite another matter... Bob Colwell ..!uunet!mfci!colwell Multiflow Computer or colwell@multiflow.com 175 N. Main St. Branford, CT 06405 203-488-6090
mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) (01/20/89)
In article <625@m3.mfci.UUCP>, colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell) writes: > There is an excellent article in the latest IEEE Computer on the > Convex C2 by Tom Jones. My copy arrived a day or so later, but I'd agree: that's a good article. The issue is "Real Machines: Design Choices/Engineering Tradeoffs", and includes the Cydrome Cydra-5, Convex C2, CRAY X-MP, TI ASC, NSC 32532, and HP Precision. People who've followed the RISC wars here would do well to read the good HP article by Ruby Lee. An exercise for the reader: Precisions & R3000s have some pretty strong similarities in some areas, and some equally strong differences in others, despite the fact that some similar philosophies and approaches were used by the two design teams. The exercise is to figure out why the differences are there, and many useful hints are given by this paper. -- -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