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From: wunder@hp-sde.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What's a "tahoe"?
Message-ID: <580003@hp-sde.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 88 17:24:26 GMT
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Organization: HP Software Dev Environments - Palo Alto, CA
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   / hp-sde:comp.arch / chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) /
   The Tahoe architecture is remarkably similar to that of the
   VAX; ... and the basic instruction cycle is much faster (the CCI is
   mostly TTL, yet runs about as fast as the ECL gate array VAX 8650).

Amusing.  The HP9000 model 840 is also TTL and is also about the same
as an 8650 (or one of those ECL VAXen, I've really lost track).  The
series 800 also seems to have about the same performance range as the
CCI -- roughly 5 to 14 MIPS.

I guess we've all learned a lot about architecture since the mid-70s
(when the VAX was designed).

wunder