[comp.arch] brash micros versus the Big Iro

tbridg@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (10/02/87)

>Steve Chen has been willing to start with a previous design in the
>past. As mentioned in the Cray press release, Chen is the principle
>architect of the X-MP which was a follow on to the Cray 1, and of the
>Y-MP, which will be the succesor to the Y-MP.

The Y-MP must be optimized for recursion or Peano (sp) arithmetic!