Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!rutgers!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Superoptimiser. Message-ID: <11458@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 5 Jul 88 14:51:55 GMT References: <28200172@urbsdc> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 17 In article <28200172@urbsdc> aglew@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes: | The IBM 360 model 97 (I always get the model number wrong; | anyway, one of the early 360s) did this. Was that the "stretch" model? I can't remember the model number, but very few were ever made. It supposedly was a reasearch item which went into production but was never marketed, so you could buy one if you could find out it existed (or something bizarre like that). I find it hard to believe that IBM used to have a machine which they built for sale but didn't market. Now, of course they have come 180 degrees from that position. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me