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From: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What with these Vector's anyways? (oh really...)
Message-ID: <2033@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 00:03:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: im4u.2033
Posted: Fri Jul 24 00:03:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:38:39 EDT
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Reply-To: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
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Organization: Univ of Texas Elec & Comp Engr Dept
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Summary: Early vector machines

In article <2398@ames.UUCP> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes:
>In article <8344@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>..............................................  Too many of the pre-Cray
>>supercomputers did vectors really fast but were pigs on scalar computation.
>
>Too many?  I am only aware of one which was produced: the STAR-100.

The TI ASC (Advanced Scientific Computer) had one to four pipelines,
but no scalar unit, which hurt performance badly.  The designers
underestimated the amount of scalar code in their target programs.
Still, they sold more ASCs than CDC sold Star-100s.   (Four, I believe.)

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Paul Suhler        suhler@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU	512-474-9517/471-3903