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Subject: Re: The 8086 -- An Architecture for the Future [??]
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Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 23:18:00 EDT
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From:     Philip Gladstone (on GEC 4090 at Rutherford) 

The snag with the iAPX432 is that it is MIND-BOGGLINGLY slow - and adding
more processors does not really cure the problem as you run out of
memory bandwidth. I guess bigger caches on the CPU (GDP?) chip would help.
 
     Philip Gladstone