phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) (07/23/88)
I just wondered if there had been anything about this project lately?
I had heard reports that Zilog was working on it many years ago but
never saw any ads by Zilog announcing its availability. Does anyone
know the reason for the delay?
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Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.comelg@killer.UUCP (07/23/88)
in article <22436@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) says: > What I heard somewhere: (possibly just rumor): The 80K was to be a hardwired-logic (as vs. microcoded) 32-bit microprocessor. They had it up to the silicon stage when the chief designer left to go to another company. They found bugs in the initial test run (not unusual -- just ask Intel about the 80386!). But they could never find the bugs, and, in fact, had difficulty simply understanding some of the things that the long-departed designer had done. According to rumor, they eventually had to scrap the whole project and start over from scratch again, whereupon Zilog's financial problems precluded any swift redesign.... -- Eric Lee Green ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 PC Pursuit: A conspiracy to corrupt the readability of the net by obscuring the text that the writer is typing.