[comp.arch] 88000 and VLIW

wayner@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) (12/09/88)

I understand that the 88000 has a bus on the chip where the
functional units like the ALU and the Floating Point unit
get their information. 

Is this a pre-evolutionary trait of a VLIW chip? Will this
make issuing instructions to multiple alu's easy? 

-Peter Wayner
(wayner@svax.cs.cornell.edu)