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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
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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.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me