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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: VLIW Architecture
Summary: But what is the architecture?
Keywords: vliw
Message-ID: <1626@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 89 11:43:40 GMT
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In article <1050@m3.mfci.UUCP>, cutler@mfci.UUCP (Ben Cutler) writes:
> In article <251FCB3F.12366@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ad@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Custeau     RD) writes:
| >
| >   I am looking for references or information on VLIW architectures for
| >a fourth-year architecture seminar.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  
> A good ``introductory'' text is ``Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures'',
> by John Ellis, which won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1985.  It's
> available from MIT Press.  For information on a commercial VLIW
> implementation, contact Multiflow Computer at (203) 488-6090.

As one who always finds ways to use the architecture that the compiler
writers did not think about, I maintain that this book helps little.

Why is it the case that people in the computing field think that someone
can understand a computer in ignorance of its instruction set and the
temporal operation of those instructions?
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)